{"id":105493,"date":"2020-04-16T08:28:21","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T15:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/space-industry-consortium-concerned-about-financial-health-of-small-businesses"},"modified":"2020-04-16T08:28:21","modified_gmt":"2020-04-16T15:28:21","slug":"space-industry-consortium-concerned-about-financial-health-of-small-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/space-industry-consortium-concerned-about-financial-health-of-small-businesses","title":{"rendered":"Space industry consortium concerned about financial health of small businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/space-industry-consortium-concerned-about-financial-health-of-small-businesses2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 The Space Enterprise Consortium \u2014 an organization created in 2017 to attract space companies to work on military contracts \u2014 is canvassing firms to gauge the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on businesses.<\/p>\n<p>The consortium known as SpEC is run by the U.S. Space Force\u2019s Space and Missile Systems Center in Los Angeles. It has more than 350 member companies, many of them space startups and small businesses.<\/p>\n<p>In an April 15 email the consortium asked members to identify those that have fewer than 50 employees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 The Space Enterprise Consortium \u2014 an organization created in 2017 to attract space companies to work on military contracts \u2014 is canvassing firms to gauge the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on businesses. The consortium known as SpEC is run by the U.S. Space Force\u2019s Space and Missile Systems Center in Los Angeles. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,43,45,1495,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-business","category-finance","category-health","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}