MDA’s plan to reimagine itself as a U.S. based company has hit a big pothole along its path. This is primarily due to the significant downturn in sales of larger satellites, communication satellites destined for geosynchronous orbit (GEO), which is hitting its SSL unit hard.

It’s official. Astronaut David Saint-Jacques launch to the International Space Station (ISS) is set for December 3, two and half weeks earlier than planned and after Russian officials gave the green light to resume flights.

In late 2016 the Canadian Space Agency convened a Space Exploration Workshop. It wasn’t the regular workshop convened every few years. This one had a goal of producing a Science and Space Health Priorities plan for the next decade.

Maritime Launch Services (MLS) which is conducting an environmental focus report for the province of Nova Scotia has released an animation of their proposed spaceport.

As humans venture beyond Low Earth Orbit access to medical care becomes problematic. In the very near future Artificial Intelligence (AI) based medical care along with advanced robotics will help astronauts in a time of need.

November is being dubbed Space Month by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and during the month they plan on voting, with the intention of approving, the spectrum license for Kepler Communications’ satellite constellation.

Retired astronaut Chris Hadfield announced a children’s writing contest yesterday with the opportunity that David Saint-Jacques will read the winning stories in space.

There is a space race ongoing in Canada and it’s not what you might expect. In fact, it’s flying under the radar and the government is ill-prepared to deal with it because frankly they’re not paying enough attention.

During the Fireside Chat with the CBC’s Bob McDonald and the U.S. State Department’s Kenneth Hodgkins, one of the surprising topics discussed was that of Canada becoming an emerging launching state.

When astronaut David Saint-Jacques flies to the International Space Station he’ll be doing an additional experiment, this one with students.