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.
Read More »Canadian Astronauts Graduate and are Certified for Flight
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.
Read More »Search for Life Beyond Earth Requires Flexibility in our Understanding
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.
Read More »Toronto-area Teen Models Asteroid Collision Risk
MONTREAL – At age 13, Artash Nath is already taking on the big questions puzzling scientists – climate change, planetary atmospheres and asteroid collisions.
Read More »Future Mars Missions Will Include Water-hunting and Growing Plants
MONTREAL – NASA’s push to land people on the moon in 2024 is a stepping stone to a much larger goal – landing people on Mars.
Read More »‘Translators’ and Cross-Disciplinary Work Needed to Solve Space Problems
MONTREAL – Space is not only an interdisciplinary business, but one that is in urgent need of artificial intelligence “translators” who can work across different fields, says the chair of Canada’s space advisory board.
Read More »Canadian Space Regulations Discussed at Inaugural SpaceQ Intel Event
SpaceQ Intel, a new division of SpaceQ, held an inaugural roundtable in Ottawa Thursday (Sept. 12) to discuss the space regulatory environment in Canada.
Read More »Canadian Engineers Helped Guide America’s Mercury, Gemini and Apollo Programs
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.
Read More »The Canadian Story of the Apollo Lunar Module Landing Legs
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.
Read More »Canada Faces Decision Point in European Space Agency Program Participation
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.
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