United Launch Alliance, the launch company created from a joint venture between Boeing and Lockheed Martin went from being the go to company for launching U.S. military satellites, to being the other rocket company as SpaceX garners much of the headlines.

If you’re a non-profit charity like the Canadian Space Society, there’s an additional tool you can add to your efforts, the ability to now spend more than 10% of your resources on political activities.

The Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) released the first comprehensive Patents in Space report last week that indicates that Canadian companies, particularly SME’s, could potentially have a technical advantage in the global space sector.

The Canadian Space Commerce Association is no longer. Long live the Canadian Space Commerce Association.

On July 1st the Australia Space Agency (ASA) started operations. It’s an important milestone for the country as they look to space to help drive economic growth with an eye to tripling their share of the global space market by 2030.

If anyone thought MDA was leaving Canada, they better think again. The announcement on Monday that they had acquired Ottawa based Neptec Design Group is an example of how the company is consolidating its hold on key technologies.

The Canadian Space Agency is looking to industry for new business models in support of their satellite operations as the volume of missions it has to manage grows and become more complex.

Kepler Communications announced this week that they had partnered with the UK’s Satellite Applications Catapult on developing a third demonstration satellite and expanding their operations into the UK.

There have been several attempts in the past to start a commercial spaceport from scratch in Canada, but none have reached the milestone of completing and submitting an environmental assessment for review by the jurisdiction in which they want to launch. And while Maritime Launch Services has reached this milestone, there’s still the hurdle of funding to surmount.

Canada has a vibrant astronomy community involved in ground-based and space-based astronomy programs and missions. According to my guest, Rob Thacker, we’re doing ok with ground-based astronomy programs but are failing when it comes to space-based astronomy missions.