When the Diefenbaker government announced the cancellation of Canada’s Avro CF-105 Arrow in February 1959, few could have predicted the effect on the American space program.

In the early 1960s, a Canadian company suddenly found itself at the forefront of the American effort to put United States astronauts on the moon. On the back of a contract worth the equivalent of $2 million today, Héroux (today’s Héroux-Devtek) beat out several competing American contractors to manufacture the lunar module’s landing legs.

LAVAL, QUE. – The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) needs the space community to act soon as the agency decides how to participate in future European programs. Companies, educational institutions and other stakeholders have until June 28 to respond to a CSA survey sent out to the community, said Eric Martin, a program lead in technology development manager at the CSA.

LAVAL, QUE. – At least two new opportunities are forthcoming under the Canadian Space Agency’s (CSA) Space Technology Development Program (STDP) for companies interested in contributing to the future of space missions, a senior space agency official said Tuesday (June 18).

Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) expects a flood of interest for satellite data in the wake of the RADARSAT Constellation (RCM) launch, which flew into space successfully Wednesday (June 12) aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that has been to space before.

OTTAWA – Volunteer staff from a state-of-the-art “flying eye hospital” hosted astronauts and demonstrated their operating skills at the Ottawa International Airport this weekend.

A Canadian high school team will be the first ever to fly a payload in a European sounding-rocket student competition.

While SpaceX, Blue Origin and other rocket providers target reusability, there’s a part of rockets that hasn’t changed very much in recent decades – the fuel.

Sitting in a side hangar of the Canada Aviation and Space Museum (CASM) is a special preservation project: an airplane that is the direct ancestor of the forthcoming RADARSAT Constellation Mission (RCM) that will launch in the coming months, upgrading RADARSAT-2’s capability with a trio of satellites.

Honeywell Aerospace recently opened a local incubator, dubbed the “Greenhouse”, to reduce the cost and time to create technologies for small satellites, the company said Tuesday (Feb. 26) at an announcement at an office on Elgin Street.