Western University is holding its annual Space Day on Friday, April 12 that includes industry, government and academic experts along with student presentations that point to future Canadian space development.
Read More »Launch Startup Relativity Space Snags Telesat as a Customer
It was just two months ago that Telesat announced that it had selected unproven, but well funded, Blue Origin as a launch partner for its low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellation. Today, they’ve also selected startup Relativity Space to be a launch partner.
Read More »Global Affairs Canada Issues Full Operating License to Planet Labs
It was years in the making, but on March 29 Global Affairs Canada issued Planet Labs a full operating license for their Inuvik based ground station.
Read More »A Conversation About the New Techstars Starburst Space Accelerator
Dedicated space accelerator programs are beginning to pop-up across the globe. The latest one launching a new cohort this year is the Los Angeles based Techstars Starburst Space Accelerator.
Read More »NASA Previews David Saint Jacques and Anne McClain Spacewalk
David Saint-Jacques will put years of training for a spacewalk to work on Monday April 8 as he and fellow Expedition 59 astronaut Anne McClain will exit the space stations Quest airlock around 8:05 a.m EDT to begin an approximate 7 hour spacewalk.
Read More »UrtheCast to Sell Deimos Imaging Assets and Will Have Reduced Staff by 45%
Yesterday UrtheCast announced its fourth quarter and fiscal year 2018 financial results which saw revenue of $15.6 million in 2018 compared to $40.4 million in 2017.
Read More »RADARSAT-1 Data Set of 36,500 Images Released to the Public
The Canadian Space Agency and the Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation today announced that 36,500 images collected by the RADARSAT-1 satellite are now available on the Earth Observation Data Management System.
Read More »COM DEV, Now a Part of Honeywell Charts a New Course in Canada
Honeywell is a global company with over 130,000 employees of which about 3600 are based in Canada. In 2015 the company announced it was acquiring Cambridge, Ontario based COM DEV. It was seen as a smart move at the time.
Read More »Astronaut David Saint-Jacques Gets his Spacewalk
NASA announced yesterday that Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques will participate in his first spacewalk currently scheduled for April 8.
Read More »Canada’s Mars on Earth Featured in Google Earth, Street View and a New Documentary
The Haughton Crater on Devon Island in Canada’s high Arctic is home to the only known impact crater in a polar desert. This makes it an ideal analog for a Mars on Earth research station.
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