Financial Support
The CANEUS Organization will facilitate the funding of
CANEUS NPS by government and private investment sources as a new MNT Concepts-to-Systems venture. Due diligence review of the CANEUS NPS business plan will be conducted by CANEUS’ broad and comprehensive professional membership at the
CANEUS 2006 Conference. CANEUS NPS is being structured to yield revenues beginning in the second year of operation.
IP Issues
IP on Multifunctional miniaturized spacecraft is currently held by Angstrom Aerospace Corporation. CANEUS NPS will begin operations by licensing the AAC IP prior to developing its own IP portfolio.
Dedicated International Collaboration
CANEUS has orchestrated a strategic alliance that has brought together the following international collaborations to form CANEUS NPS:
Angstrom Aerospace Corporation, Sweden, providing the core baseline technology of a radically new multifunctional Nanosatellite architecture.
Astrium UK for developing the nanosatellite demonstrator and also suppliers of core sub-systems for the Nano-Pico-Satellites.
A number of other large aerospace organizations (Lockheed-Martin, Thales (Alcatel-Alenia), NASA, ESA, among others) will work with CANEUS NPS either as primary End Users or as project collaborators.
Universities and research laboratories in Canada, USA, Europe and Japan that have communicated expressions of interest
For business interactions with US organizations, CANEUS NPS will address ITAR issues affecting international collaborations. CANEUS NPS has established a strategic partnership with Glennan Microsystems Inc. (GMI) based in the US. GMI will serve as the principal marketing and customer support organization for after the launch of CANEUS NPS. Since CANEUS NPS is based in Canada, it will have access to US Govt. contracts under the auspices of the DSSP program set up between the US and Canada.
Session Time and Speakers
CANEUS Panelists:
Minoo Dastoor (NASA – Exploration), Marc Shepanek (NASA – Chief Medical Office), Masto Sakurai (JAXA), Peter Wegner (US AFRL), Martin Lang (ESA ESTEC), Laurent Marchand (EDA ESTEC), Daniel Weihs (Technion-Israel Institute of Technology), Mohan S. Misra (ITN and Microsat), Kistu Bindra (Burns & Doanne USA), Walt Merrill (GMI), Deepak Srivastava (NASA – AMES)
