Millions of Canadians are now sheltering in place in their houses amid the Coronavirus pandemic, providing a challenge for kids (and adults) in finding things to do while waiting out the storm.

For the past 20 years, Doug Sinclair worked hard in the space business. He began in his basement, selling his work by the hour. His first products came online in 2006 and 2007, in satellite components such as magnetic torque rods and digital sun sensors. 

Western University is readying to deploy a vision system for future rover missions on the moon, building on to rover technology the Canadian Space Agency has been supporting for at least two decades.

Since space experiments are expensive, much of the testing for the final frontier takes place on airplanes simulating microgravity, or balloons that fly high in the stratosphere.

Canada’s RADARSAT Constellation Mission (RCM) will soon join a suite of 61 international satellites that assist emergency authorities in dealing with floods, storms, earthquakes and other problems threatening humans, according to the Canadian Space Agency (CSA).

Canada’s National Research Council (NRC) is working on a research venture to give rural Canadians better Internet access, known as High Throughput Secure Networks. 

Telesat and two American partner companies plan a nine-month exercise with the U.S. Air Force that could position the Canadian satellite operator for future military and government tenders.

After more than two years of training, Canada’s newest astronaut recruits are ready to get in line for spaceflight opportunities, and those opportunities could see one or both on a mission to the moon someday.

MONTREAL – As space technology improves to look for life beyond Earth, a panel of experts urged that humanity keep itself open about what we might find out there – an important point as a new generation of life-searchers (ranging from Mars 2020 to the James Webb Space Telescope) embark on their cosmic journeys in the early 2020s.

MONTREAL – At age 13, Artash Nath is already taking on the big questions puzzling scientists – climate change, planetary atmospheres and asteroid collisions.