{"id":60380,"date":"2015-08-14T14:41:06","date_gmt":"2015-08-14T14:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=6b955bde43a0a32dfacc172fc99056e2"},"modified":"2015-08-14T14:41:06","modified_gmt":"2015-08-14T14:41:06","slug":"news-story-northern-ireland-space-firm-on-a-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=60380","title":{"rendered":"News story: Northern Ireland space firm on a mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Belfast based hi-tech electronics firm <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/arralis.com\/\">Arralis Technologies<\/a> was one of nine of the best UK space companies to join a space sector trade mission to the USA this week (8-14 August), organised by the UK government\u2019s innovation agency, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/organisations\/innovate-uk\">Innovate UK<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Arralis Technologies, headquartered in Ireland but with a design centre in the Institute of Electronics, Communications and Information Technology on Queens Island, Belfast, joined the cream of UK space companies to meet industry-leading companies and investors, including teams from NASA, Virgin Galactic and Lockheed Martin.<\/p>\n<p>Northern Ireland Office Parliamentary Under Secretary of State Ben Wallace said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">This UK government-backed trip was a great opportunity for Belfast-based Arralis Research Centre to reach new customers in the US and introduce their innovative products to some of the biggest players in the global space sector.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Working together with the Executive, we will continue to do all we can through our long-term economic plan to support firms in Northern Ireland, help them expand into new markets, create new jobs and boost productivity and growth.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Arralis Technologies develops electronic products that operate at very high frequencies such as microchips, antennas and sub-systems. These products allow aerospace, defence and communications customers to build the next generation of products for applications such as high resolution radar and massive data-rate communications links.<\/p>\n<p>Arralis Technologies Chief Technology Officer Mike Gleaves, who joined the USA mission, said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">It\u2019s good to get our name out there in the US, which is very hard to do when you are a small company based in Belfast.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">This is a great opportunity to talk to people and find out what technology they\u2019re looking for.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The trade mission was part of a wider UK effort to grow its share of world space economy to 10 per cent by 2030.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arralis, the Belfast based hi-tech electronics company joins UK government backed space sector trade mission to USA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60380"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}