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Telesat said it is close to announcing fresh details on Lightspeed financing with the government of Canada as the company announced its financial results for the last fiscal year Thursday (March 28).

The Zenith Canada Pathways Foundation — a not-for-profit organization dedicated to promoting equity, diversity and inclusion in Canada’s space sector – has announced its third annual Class of Zenith Fellows.

Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut Joshua Kutryk told SpaceQ that Canadians should look at the space program “with a sense of pride” as the next two astronauts in space, including Kutryk, prepare for their missions.

The Canadian Space Agency has unveiled the personal patch for Joshua Kutryk’s Starliner-1 mission scheduled for early 2025.

SpaceX’s Starlink is slowly getting closer to rolling out direct-to-smartphone satellite telephony in Canada and elsewhere, with several key milestones being hit in the last few months. In Canada, their terrestrial partner for providing those capabilities will be Rogers, but questions still exist as to when and how these capabilities will be implemented, and why Rogers seems to be hedging their bets on whether to …

The last three Canadian CubeSat Project satellites are scheduled to launch today on the SpaceX Dragon’s 30th Commercial Resupply Services (CRS-30) mission to the International Space Station.

At the ongoing Satellite 2024 conference in Washington MDA Space CEO Mike Greenley was announced as the winner of the 2023 Satellite Executive of the Year Award during a luncheon ceremony.

Maritime Launch Services (MLS) announced today it has signed an agreement with Impulso.Space USA Corp. who will provide integrated launch services for Spaceport Nova Scotia. The news comes as MLS recently outlined its Phase 1 and 2 Lease and Launch Revenue Model. This page is for subscribers only. Already a subscriber? Log in. Fact-driven space news, columns, business, policy, technology and more. Support independent journalism. …

The federal government has made a new commitment to open science over the past few months. In January they opened a new Federal Open Science Repository for Government agencies to publish scientific research and data for public access.

The Government of Canada announced two new greening projects, and recently discussed progress on a third for Canadian Space Agency (CSA) that saw a sharp cut in its emissions, as part of a government-wide effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.