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Well Terranauts listeners, that is, in fact, going to be a wrap for season 3 of Terranauts. We will have to pick up the story of the Gemini program after the summer break. Never fear, over the summer we will be posting some of our favourite episodes from the past three seasons of Terranauts for your continued listening enjoyment.

The Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) has been successful and growing. CDL is an accelerator program whose unique approach is to take in a wide variety of startup ventures, expose them to sectoral mentors, and slowly eliminate them until a few top-flight companies remain. They started in Toronto, but now have branches across the United States and Europe, showing growing appetites for the opportunity to compete …

Virgin Orbit’s scheduled launch of the “Straight Up” mission tonight includes the QUEYSSAT communications demonstration payload, a collaboration of the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory and the Canadian Department of National Defence (DOD).

In this weeks Space Economy podcast my special guest is Lori Garver, the former Deputy Administrator of NASA and author of the new book Escaping Gravity: My Quest to Transform NASA and Launch a New Space Age.

Rocket Lab's now well-known for their Electron Rockets, and one of them is about to carry NASA and Advanced Space’s Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE) mission on the first leg of its trip to the Moon.  It’s Rocket Lab’s new Photon vehicle and its HyperCurie engine that will bring CAPSTONE the rest of the way, though, and Photon’s maiden voyage …

As Canada continues to implement its Strategy for Satellite Earth Observation, the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) on behalf of other federal departments is organizing another National Earth Observation Forum.

The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with another space agency, this time with the Luxembourg Space Agency.

Defence Minister Anita Anand announced $4.9 billion in spending at CFB Trenton yesterday to upgrade and modernize the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD). The upgrades include several longstanding wish list items including a Space-Based Surveillance System.

The three-day Canadian Space Exploration Workshop (CSEW) wrapped on June 16 after attendees spent most of their time in breakout groups discussing what to do next in Canadian space exploration and science. 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

The Canadian Space Agency asked this question of hundreds of delegates last week, with the virtual Canadian Space Exploration Workshop (CSEW) 2022. Planning will need to come quickly in the months after this event.