The Halifax Business Awards are intended to recognize those businesses and business people in Halifax who exemplify the best that our city has to offer: innovators, who are willing to take chances, push the boundaries and stretch the limits for success.

The annual event, now in its twelfth year, featured Gold, Silver and Bronze winners in five categories: New Business of the Year, Small Business of the Year, International Business of the Year, Business of the Year and Business Person of the Year.

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Peter Conlon, Nautel President and CEO, accepts the Bronze International Business of the Year 2012 Award.

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Nautel received an award for Export Growth Through New Product Development.

We are happy to announce that Nautel also took home the award for Exporter of the Year. A big congratulations to everyone at Nautel, our partners and our clients for helping make this achievement possible.

Nautel President and CEO Peter Conlon accepting the award for Export Growth Through New Product Development on behalf of Nautel

Peter Conlon accepting the Exporter of the Year Award on behalf of Nautel

The team from Nautel after receiving two awards at the 2009 Export Achievement Awards ceremony in Halifax

The team at Nautel who made the two 2009 Export Achievement Awards possible

The Awards

Export Growth Through New Product Development Award

Exporter of the Year Award

An acronym for Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket, VASIMR^® is a new high-power plasma-based space propulsion technology originally studied by NASA and now in private development by Ad Astra. The VASIMR^® engine works with plasmas, electrically charged fluids that can be heated to extreme temperatures by radio waves and controlled and guided by strong magnetic fields. Ad Astra partnered with Nautel, who supplied the high power RF generators for generating the plasma gases used for propulsion. The company hopes for a 2014 commercial deployment of the technology, which could greatly reduce the operational costs of space exploration and shorten transit times for missions to Mars and beyond.

“We are pleased to be partnering with Ad Astra on this exciting project and congratulate them on achieving this important milestone in their development,” said Peter Conlon, President and CEO of Nautel. “Projects such as these are not only exciting developments in space sciences, they inspire our engineers to continue pushing the limits in efficiency and capabilities of our standard broadcast transmitter and navigational beacon lines.”

Sample video of VASIMR^® plasma rocket technology may be viewed on YouTube using this link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zSou_r-W9Q

About Ad Astra Rocket Company

Ad Astra Rocket Company is a privately-owned corporation established January 14, 2005 to commercialize the technology of the VASIMR^® engine, a plasma propulsion system originally studied by NASA with potential to support an emerging in-space transportation market. The company has its main laboratory and corporate headquarters at 141 W. Bay Area Boulevard in Webster, Texas, USA. Ad Astra also owns and operates Ad Astra Rocket Company, Costa Rica, a supporting research and development subsidiary in Guanacaste, Costa Rica.

About Nautel

Nautel is a global leader in the design, manufacture, sales and support of high power Radio Frequency (“RF”) products for AM and FM broadcast, navigation, industrial and space-based applications. With a long history of creating highly innovative products, Nautel continues to lead the way in providing valuable new solutions for the digital radio broadcast revolution. Thousands of customers in more than 177 countries have discovered that Nautel delivers world class RF solutions – systems that meet stringent quality standards at its ISO-registered manufacturing facilities.