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NASA plans an ambitious mission next week that Canadians say will provide a small boost to asteroid science.

It’s no coincidence that Western University named its upcoming conference “Space as a National Asset.” Space professor Sarah Gallagher, who is also the outgoing science advisor to the president of the Canadian Space Agency, told SpaceQ that the language comes from Canada’s space strategy.

Maritime Launch Services (MLS) publicly announced a couple of agreements at this years International Astronautical Congress in Paris including with Skyrora and the State Space Agency of Ukraine. What other deals will come from their side meetings is something we should learn about in the coming months. This page is for subscribers only. Already a subscriber? Log in. Fact-driven space news, columns, business, policy, technology …

Building on the ongoing Canadian CubeSat Project (CCP), the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) is launching a new follow-on program, the CubeSats Initiative in Canada for STEM (CUBICS).

Axiom Space has signed a new agreement with MDA for external payload interfaces for its future commercial space station, the second time this year its tapped MDA for the Canadarm3 derived technology.

At the International Astronautical Congress 2022 in Paris today, the Canadian Space Agency and CNES, the French space agency, renewed their partnership for the stratospheric balloon flight opportunities program.

The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) Earth observation satellite, a joint mission of the French space agency,CNES and NASA, and with contributions from the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) and the United Kingdom Space Agency (UKSA), is almost ready for transport in early October to the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California for a scheduled December 5 launch.

John Moores of York University is the new Science Advisor to Lisa Campbell, President of the Canadian Space Agency.

MDA’s CEO Mike Greeney posted on LinkedIn yesterday that this past Sunday, September 11, its RADARSAT-2 satellite had acquired its one millionth image, a major milestone for any Earth observation platform.

GHGSat has signed a deal with Spire Global to host at least three methane-tracking payloads. The deal, announced at the World Satellite Business Week, will have GHGSat move away (at least partially) from their previous strategy of owning their own satellites, and shift towards putting payloads onto Spire satellites. Spire will be launching three 16U satellites in 2023 that will each carry one of GHGSat’s payloads.