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Business Conference
Business Meeting

Direct Support to Small and Medium Enterprises 

SatCan
Space Support
Program (SSP)

Services Available to IRAP-Approved Clients

Summary

4.0 is completed but we hope to have another coming soon. Please check back here for more details soon.

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Kurtis Broda

Chief Technology Officer

Wyvern Space

Wyvern partnered with SatCan for the Space Support Program for several projects. Their expertise and professionalism have been invaluable to our continued growth and development. I would recommend any eligible company to apply to this program.

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Joel Cumming
Chief Technology Officer
Skywatch

We partnered with SatCan for a couple different projects through the Space Support Program. The SatCan team was fast, professional, and provided great analysis for us. We look forward to partnering with SatCan and leveraging the SSP program again in the future!

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Nathalie Sleno
Executive VP
Leap Biosystems

The organization and expertise of all involved made this experience highly valuable. We achieved what we set out to do with the support of SatCan's program. Thank you.

Program Details

WHAT DOES SATCAN PROVIDE?

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Innovative technology and engineering personnel are employed by Canadian SMEs, but require wider support navigating business strategy, marketing, finance, policy, technology development, innovation support and other services to scale up to companies that will feed into the Canadian economy.

  • Market positioning. Who are potential competitors, suppliers, clients, partners?

  • Market influences. Assess ecosystem activity, global economy, geo-political factors.

  • Downstream markets. What are end user cases? What are the needs now and in the future?

  • Go-to market strategy. How to deliver the product or service? What pricing model to use? Who is the customer?

  • Business case. Build the business case. What do investors need to see?

  • Technology development. What is the best technology road map?

  • Development strategy. What course should be plotted for a particular innovation?

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WHO IS ELIGIBLE?

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) must meet the following criteria to be considered:

  • There is one or more full-time equivalent employee(s) on the company payroll

  • There are no more than 500 employees

  • The firm operates from a professional space

  • The firm is Canadian and has a Canada Revenue Agency business number

SHOULD YOU PARTICIPATE?

Answering yes to the following questions probably means that the SSP is right for you:

  • Are you struggling to understand how your technology fits into the space ecosystem?

  • Are you looking for ways to manage the development of your newest innovation?

  • Do you wish you had access to skilled consultants who have experience with top tier organizations?

  • Can you share enough information to provide our team with context to get started?

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SATCAN OBJECTIVES FOR SSP
Drive Growth and Global Excellence for the Canadian Space Technology and Industry

  • Accelerate growth of small-medium business

  • Develop skills in the sector with targeted space knowledge

  • Position key technology contributions to large commercial and government projects

  • Access to a premier network of innovation partners, international government agencies, commercial space organizations, academia, funding and facilities

  • Connect industry to international commercial and government projects (Europe, US, Canada, others)

  • Support upstream technology development and grow downstream space applications

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VALUE PROPOSITION
Each SME receives a custom plan. These are sample services:

  • Access to expert advisors

  • Industry/government/academia partners, skills development

  • Design and certification support

  • Options for hardware and software certification for space environment

  • Business support

  • Options for business models and financial opportunities, introductions to commercial experts and market reports

  • Growth in international markets

  • Research on global space technology and business ecosystems

  • Facilitate access to government/academia and partner technology

  • Facilitate networking opportunities

  • Conferences, introductions to key partners and organizations

  • Specialist consulting support

  • Provision of research, administrative support and other necessary informed services by skilled individuals, in order to support high level works

 

To learn more about how the SSP can directly benefit your company, email us.

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Project Team

The strength of SatCan is its access to professionals, services, skills, business contacts and
associations to provide a full suite of support to the space technology industry in Canada.  
 
SatCan will leverage a broad spectrum of skills and expertise from a combination of our internal
team and a roster of industry experts.

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