Spaceq

Hi, I’m Marc Boucher and this is a special edition of the SpaceQ podcast. In this podcast recorded at the CASI ASTRO 18 conference in Quebec City, you’ll hear from Jacques Giroux, Business Development Manager, Space & Defence Systems at ABB. Jacques is also the incoming president of CASI, the organizers of the conference.ABB is large Swiss multinational company with 135,000 employee and revenues of $34.3B in 2017. ABB has about 4,000 employees in Canada but less than 5% of those work in its space segment which is headquartered in Quebec City. And while the space segment is a very small portion of the overall company, it is an important segment as you’ll hear. It’s even possible you might not have heard of their efforts in Canada. That’s primarily because most of their work is exported. In particularly, they are known for their weather satellite sensors which are being used today on European and U.S. satellites. Some of that technology was developed and leveraged from past investments the Canadian governm