Space Canada today revealed details of its inaugural annual conference called Spacebound, including the fact that Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen will be the keynote speaker at the opening Parliamentary Reception on Monday, October 17, 2022.

This years 73rd International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Paris was the largest one to date, with nearly 10,000 people attending in-person. The Canadian Space Agency signed four agreements and held 17 official meetings. 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

Maritime Launch Services (MLS) publicly announced a couple of agreements at this years International Astronautical Congress in Paris including with Skyrora and the State Space Agency of Ukraine. What other deals will come from their side meetings is something we should learn about in the coming months. This page is for subscribers only. Already a subscriber? Log in. Fact-driven space news, columns, business, policy, technology …

Building on the ongoing Canadian CubeSat Project (CCP), the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) is launching a new follow-on program, the CubeSats Initiative in Canada for STEM (CUBICS).

Axiom Space has signed a new agreement with MDA for external payload interfaces for its future commercial space station, the second time this year its tapped MDA for the Canadarm3 derived technology.

At the International Astronautical Congress 2022 in Paris today, the Canadian Space Agency and CNES, the French space agency, renewed their partnership for the stratospheric balloon flight opportunities program.

The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) Earth observation satellite, a joint mission of the French space agency,CNES and NASA, and with contributions from the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) and the United Kingdom Space Agency (UKSA), is almost ready for transport in early October to the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California for a scheduled December 5 launch.

John Moores of York University is the new Science Advisor to Lisa Campbell, President of the Canadian Space Agency.

MDA’s CEO Mike Greeney posted on LinkedIn yesterday that this past Sunday, September 11, its RADARSAT-2 satellite had acquired its one millionth image, a major milestone for any Earth observation platform.

NorthStar Earth & Space continues to add to its European portfolio of partnerships, this time signing a distribution and partnership agreement at the World Satellite Business Week with Telespazio, the joint venture between Leonardo and Thales.