An internal audit of the Canadian Space Agency’s Lunar Exploration Accelerator Program (LEAP) did not reveal any substantive issues but did provide some additional details on program spending.
Read More »Pandemic, Supply Issues Takes a Toll in Latest State of the Canadian Space Sector Report
The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) recently released its latest State of the Canadian Space Sector Report with data from 2020 and 2021. It shows a decline in total sector revenues from of 11% between 2019 to 2020 but was “virtually unchanged” between 2020 and 2021.
Read More »MDA Adds Stephanie McDonald as Chief People, Culture and Transformation Officer
MDA has hired Stephanie McDonald as their new Chief People, Culture and Transformation Officer who has experience in “providing long-term strategic planning and value creation in publicly-traded companies.”
Read More »MDA Awarded Another Contract to Fight Illegal Fishing
Prior to the Canada Day long weekend MDA announced it was awarded another contract from the Department of Fisheries and Oceans in the governments efforts to fight illegal, unregulated, and unreported fishing.
Read More »Spaceport Nova Scotia First Suborbital Rocket Launch Scheduled for July 5
It may be a couple of days after the Canada Day long weekend, but Maritime Launch Services (MLS) has a present for Canada. Spaceport Nova Scotia will host its first rocket launch attempt on July 5.
Read More »Terranauts Episode 75
Today’s episode is dedicated to all of those Terranauts who work in the back hallways and committee meeting rooms to make sure that there is support (and funding) for the various programs that get humans and their inventions a chance to get off the planet. I have worked with too many of these dedicated and talented individuals to mention them here by name.
Read More »NorthStar Finds New Launch Provider
After Virgin Orbit recently folded, NorthStar Earth & Space was in need of a new launch provider to get its first group of satellites launched this year. Today they announced that Rocket Lab would be their ride to space.
Read More »Telesat LEO 3 Ships to New Zealand for Launch
Three weeks ago Telesat announced that it had contracted the Space Flight Laboratory to build another demonstration satellite for its Lightspeed constellation, dubbed LEO 3, and that it was nearing completion.
Read More »GHGSat Gets Another NASA Task Order
GHGSat is the beneficiary of another task order from NASA, this time through the Commercial Smallsat Data Acquisition (CSDA) program to provide methane emission data.
Read More »Canadian Space Agency Awards $16 million for Space Technology Development Program AO 7
The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) recently released the list of 27 organizations that received funding under the Space Technology Development Program (STDP) AO 7. We’ve already covered some of the awards, but in the coming weeks you’ll see more detailed stories on the other awards.
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