At the recent Montreal Space Symposium SpaceQ had an opportunity to speak with the organizers of Launch Canada and the Canadian Satellite Design Challenge to get update on their respective programs.

The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) is demonstrating that even as it’s about to name the teams in its own Canadian CubeSat Project, that it’s willing to provide funding to other CubeSat initiatives, in this case the Canadian Space Design Challenge (CSDC).

If I told you that over the course of the last seven years upwards of a thousand Canadian students had participated in developing CubeSat missions you might think this was a the result of a Canadian Space Agency (CSA) initiative. You would be wrong though. There was a time the CSA was interested in this, early this decade and before, but poor leadership in government, and to …

After two successful Canadian Satellite Design Challenges (CSDC) founder and manager Larry Reeves has announced that the 3rd challenge is now underway although they are still accepting applications.

The 2nd Canadian Satellite Design Challenge (CSDC) has a winner and it’s the University of Victoria. The University of Manitoba won the inaugural UrtheCast Educational Outreach Award.

The winner of Canada’s first Canadian Satellite Design Challenge (CSDC) is the University of Concordia in Montreal, Quebec.

With the aim to bring satellite research to the classrooms of university students, the Canadian Satellite Design Challenge is seeking ideas for one of Canada’s next microsatellites.