{"id":73723,"date":"2016-09-01T11:36:17","date_gmt":"2016-09-01T11:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=d2946c1fa2a9405f4bf23336f10c71f0"},"modified":"2016-09-01T11:36:17","modified_gmt":"2016-09-01T11:36:17","slug":"news-story-space-mission-3-apply-to-join-trade-delegation-to-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=73723","title":{"rendered":"News story: Space Mission 3: apply to join trade delegation to United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Up to 15 new and innovative businesses with high-growth potential working in the space sector will take part in a trade mission to California in November.<\/p>\n<p>Innovate UK is seeking businesses that could have attractive propositions for potential customers, partners and investors in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The visit to San Francisco and Los Angeles between 5 November and 11 November will include visits to leading-edge companies and technology hubs, networking events, masterclasses on pitching, meetings with specialist international trade advisors and briefings on all aspects of doing business overseas.<\/p>\n<p>The space mission is designed to help businesses to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>understand the challenges and opportunities of exporting<\/li>\n<li>develop quality contacts with potential customers, investors and partners<\/li>\n<li>gain first-hand insight into new space and satellite applications markets<\/li>\n<li>boost their profile at home and abroad<\/li>\n<li>hone product pitches for international customers and investors<\/li>\n<li>develop a market-entry strategy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The previous 2 space missions have seen businesses secure more than \u00a31 million investment, collaborate with organisations such as NASA and the European Space Agency and win contracts with the Ministry of Defence.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/spacemissionuk.org\/\">Find out more about Space Mission 3<\/a><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"watch-a-video-about-last-years-mission-to-houston\">Watch a video about last year\u2019s mission to Houston<\/h2>\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oH7n9cFvyyk\">Space Mission UK November 2015 &#8211; what did they get up to?<\/a><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"mission-information\">Mission information<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>successful businesses pay travel and event costs, typically around \u00a32,000<\/li>\n<li>space missions are aimed at startups or SMEs based in the UK and developing space and satellite technologies<\/li>\n<li>businesses will be selected based on innovation and their suitability for the international destination<\/li>\n<li>the programme includes pre-mission briefings and training and a post-mission debrief<\/li>\n<li>the deadline for applications is 16 September 2016<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSeKYSLmTZboOrVb9cB0EAKE9riLMP78zi8Xd5k2JT1uNGvb_g\/viewform\">Apply for Space Mission 3.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK businesses working in space and satellite technologies have an opportunity to meet potential overseas customers, partners and investors.<\/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\/73723"}],"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=73723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}