Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques kicked off World Space Week in Canada with a virtual appearance on Facebook where he spent a little over 20 minutes answering student questions.

The Red Planet has fascinated humanity for hundreds of years, if not millennia. The debate about whether there is and was water on Mars began to heat up once we sent the first spacecraft to the planet.

The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) has signed three agreements so far the 2018 International Astronautical Congress ongoing in Bremen, Germany.

With the 2018 Montreal Space Symposium (MSS) scheduled to start in just over two weeks on October 18 and 19, the final program is almost set and features yet again a great list of sessions and speakers.

There is some irony in the signing today of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) between Moon Express and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) at the International Astronautical Congress in Bremen.

Though a little clumsy in their presentation and perhaps little lacking in organizational detail, a new non-profit group headlined by space agencies and industry are starting a new moon race, one where technology development is the goal.

According to a new research report by Euroconsult, global government spending on space exploration will see modest growth from US$14.6B in 2017 to US$20B by 2027.

Today marks the 56th anniversary of the launch of the Alouette-1 satellite in 1962. With that launch Canada became only the third nation to build its own satellite and have it launched joining the then U.S.S.R. and United States.

As September comes to a close there are some great events across Canada in October and November for the everyone in the space community.

Kleos Space is looking to build a satellite constellation that will collect radio transmissions data that is currently hidden from detection for commercial and government civil and defence clients.