A month after announcing that it had cleared the finance hurdle for its Lightspeed constellation and brought MDA onboard as its prime manufacturer, Telesat announced yesterday a launch contract with SpaceX.
Read More »Space Flight Laboratory Built Satellites for GHGSat Exceed Design Capacity
Toronto based Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) announced last Thursday (Sept. 8) that the satellites they built for GHGSat had “achieved sustained detection and measurement of methane emissions at double the design capacity of the satellites.”
Read More »Wyvern Expands Hyperspectral Data Collection with Loft Orbital Deal
Wyvern, the Edmonton based company who have developed hyperspectral imaging technology, today announced that they are teaming up with Loft Orbital to expand the data collection capacity of their Dragonette constellation.
Read More »MDA Adds to Digital Payload Capability With Acquisition of SatixFy Division
MDA is having a moment, a good one, as the company has had to navigate some choppy waters even before the pandemic started. Adding to the moment is the announcement today of the acquisition of the digital payload division of SatixFy Communications Ltd. This page is for subscribers only. Already a subscriber? Log in. Fact-driven space news, columns, business, policy, technology and more. Support independent …
Read More »New Space Security Portal Launched
Following the release last week of the new Outer Space Security lexicon, and ahead of the upcoming Outer Space Security Conference in a few weeks, the Secure World Foundation and the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) have launched a new Space Security Portal (SSP).
Read More »India’s Chandrayaan-3 Lands on the Moon’s South Pole and we Should all Celebrate
India joins China as the only two nations to have landers successfully land and operate on the Moon in the 21st century. Others, Israel, Japan and Russia have all failed, proving how difficult the task is at the moment.
Read More »The CSA is Looking to Develop a Digital Earth Canada Prototype
The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) has posted a request for proposals for an Earth Observation (EO) Data Analytic System Prototype (Digital Earth Canada).
Read More »Outer Space Security Lexicon Published
The United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) and the Secure World Foundation have released a lexicon for Outer Space Security.
Read More »CSA Awards $1.03 Million for Industry-Academia Collaborative Research including for Quantum Technology
The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) has award six grants totalling $1.03 million to support industry-academia collaborative research.
Read More »As the Government Looks to Cut Spending Will Canada’s Space Program be Affected?
A letter obtained by The Globe and Mail states that cabinet ministers need to cut $15 billion from existing spending plans by October 2. Could that affect Canada's space program? This page is for subscribers only. Already a subscriber? Log in. Fact-driven space news, columns, business, policy, technology and more. Support independent journalism. SUBSCRIBE TODAY
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