{"id":57556,"date":"2021-05-10T21:50:12","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T13:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/quebecs-space-economy-jumps-to-lightspeed\/"},"modified":"2021-05-10T21:50:12","modified_gmt":"2021-05-10T13:50:12","slug":"quebecs-space-economy-jumps-to-lightspeed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/quebecs-space-economy-jumps-to-lightspeed\/","title":{"rendered":"Quebec\u2019s Space Economy Jumps to Lightspeed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By investing in cities, the commercial space industry can work wonders for local economies by creating new jobs, attracting new talent, and establishing long-term, future-facing tech hubs. That\u2019s exactly what Canadian satellite operator <b>Telesat <\/b>plans to do for the province of Quebec.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This past February, the government of Qu\u00e9bec agreed to invest 400 million Canadian dollars ($316 million) in Telesat\u2018s new Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellation in return for a $1.6 billion investment into Qu\u00e9bec\u2019s high-tech economy. Telesat will move most of Lightspeed\u2019s manufacturing and operations to the Canadian province \u2014 a project that includes the establishment of a new network operating center; a satellite control center; a cybersecurity operations center; an engineering lab; an advanced landing station; and the creation of hundreds of new jobs.<\/p>\n<p>In this episode of <i>On Orbit<\/i>, Telesat Government Affairs and Public Policy Manager Stephen Hampton sits down with host Jeffrey Hill to discuss why Telesat decided to find a government investment partner and how it came to choose Quebec. We also talk about the returns on government investment and the expected impact Telesat Lightspeed will have on both the local and national Canadian economy.<\/p>\n<h3>Listen Here:<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Quebec\u2019s Space Economy Jumps to Lightspeed by On Orbit Podcast by Via Satellite\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F1044019003&amp;show_artwork=true&amp;maxheight=750&amp;maxwidth=500\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By investing in cities, the commercial space industry can work wonders for local economies by creating new jobs, attracting new talent, and establishing long-term, future-facing tech hubs. That\u2019s exactly what Canadian satellite operator Telesat plans to do for the province of Quebec.&nbsp; This past February, the government of Qu\u00e9bec agreed to invest 400 million Canadian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57557,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57556"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}