The badlands of Drumheller, Alberta will once again be the location of Canadian International Rover Competition between August 12-15.

Recently retired BGen Kevin Whale who was Director General for Space at the Royal Canadian Air Force and recently Deputy Commanding General (Transformation) at Space Operations Command, United States Space Force has now now joined MDA.

The Centre for Research in Air and Space Law at McGill University has published what they describe as the “world’s first” manual on the International Law Applicable to Military Uses of Outer Space.

The Space Foundation has released its Q2 2022 Space Report in which it states the global space economy was US$469B in 2021, a 9% increase over the previous year.

A new paper from the Aerospace Corporation’s Center for Space Policy and Strategy provides a synopsis of the emerging In-space Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing (ISAM) sector.

While Canadian based C6 Launch Systems waits for the Canadian government to move forward with regulatory changes that will allow companies like C6 to launch in Canada, they are moving forward with preparations for their first suborbital test at a foreign spaceport.

As expected and made official July 22, 2022, the Department of National Defence has created a new division, the 3 Canadian Space Division.

On July 21, 2022 NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory hosted a lecture titled Curiosity Rover – A Decade on Mars. The event was part of their ongoing lecture series.

Today is International Moon Day and the 53rd anniversary of the first human landing on the Moon by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on NASA’s famed Apollo 11 mission. It’s is also yet another day NASA has attempted to set dates for the oft-delayed Artemis I mission.

NASA’s schedule for the Artemis program was always unrealistic at the funding levels it had to work with. Now comes another delay, this time for NASA’s VIPER lunar rover mission.