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SkyWatch today announced that it had raised $4 million in its seed round of funding to continue development of its Earth Observation platform EarthCache.
Read More »SkyWatch Raises $4 Million in Seed Round for Earth Observation Platform
Toronto’s Space Flight Laboratory Celebrates 20 Years of Excellence
The Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) of the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies is celebrating 20 years of excellence in the nanosatellite and microsatellite market.
Read More »Canadian Space Agency Outlines How Working With MDA They Fixed the Canadarm2 Communication Problem
When the Canadarm2 was built engineers made sure that it could get software updates even though it designed almost 20 years ago using what we would now consider outdated hardware.
Read More »The CSA Awards $600K+ Contracts for ROI Study on Deep Space Telecommunications Technologies and UV/Optical Wide Field Space Astronomy Study
The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) late last week issued two contracts totalling over $600K for two studies. The contracts were awarded to Euroconsult and COM DEV (Honeywell Canada).
Read More »Monday Spacewalk Postponed as CSA Finds Software Solution to Canadarm2 LEE Communication Problem
A spacewalk which was scheduled for early tomorrow morning has been postponed after the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) said in a post on Facebook that it had found a solution to the problem.
Read More »Space Station Managers Decide to Replace Newly Installed Canadarm2 Latching End Effector
The communication problem first experienced when astronauts replaced an ageing Latching End Effector (LEE) on the Canadarm2 last Tuesday seemed solved after it was installed a second time. That apparently is not the case, and mission managers have decided to remove the newly installed LEE and replace it with the one it just replaced.
Read More »The Canadian Satellite Design Challenge Receives CSA Grant
The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) is demonstrating that even as it’s about to name the teams in its own Canadian CubeSat Project, that it’s willing to provide funding to other CubeSat initiatives, in this case the Canadian Space Design Challenge (CSDC).
Read More »ICEYE Looks to Disrupt Synthetic Aperture Radar Satellite Market
What if you could put a Synthetic Aperture Radar on small satellite? Would this disrupt the existing market? That’s exactly what Finnish company ICEYE has done and is trying to do.
Read More »First Spacewalk of 2018 Almost Goes by the Book
The first of two scheduled spacewalks by astronauts on the international space station went almost by the book and succeeded in replacing an aged Latching End Effector on the Canadarm2.
Read More »New Robotic Hand Set for Installation on the International Space Station
In two planned spacewalks, astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) will install a new Canadian made Latching End Effector (LEE), or robotic hand, on the Canadarm2, replacing its ageing counterpart.
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