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On June 12 and 13, Canadian Space Agency (CSA) Astronaut David Saint-Jacques will be in Montreal to meet with students, professionals and Montrealers. He will speak about his journey, what it takes to become an astronaut and will touch on life in space.
Read More »Canadian Satellite Design Challenge Announces University of Victoria as the Winner
The 2nd Canadian Satellite Design Challenge (CSDC) has a winner and it’s the University of Victoria. The University of Manitoba won the inaugural UrtheCast Educational Outreach Award.
Read More »Canada’s Dextre Becomes the First Robot to Repair Itself in Space
Over the next 7 days, Dextre, the Canadian Space Agency’s (CSA) robotic handyman aboard the International Space Station (ISS), will perform the first robotic self-repair in space.
Read More »Unpacking OPALS on the Space Station – Broadcasting Live HD Video
Watch the archived video from the International Space Station as NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s OPALS lasercomm instrument was unpacked from the Dragon spacecraft by a robotic arm.
Read More »Canada's Dextre installs OPALS on the International Space Station
This computer-generated animation shows Dextre, the Canadian robotic handyman on board the International Space Station (ISS), retrieving OPALS (short for Optical PAyload for Lasercomm Science) from inside the trunk of SpaceX’s Dragon cargo ship, and installing it on the exterior of the ISS.
Read More »Canada’s Challenge: Launching Our Own Satellites
Last week COM DEV announced that Canada’s earth observation Maritime Monitoring and Messaging Microsatellite (M3MSat) launch was being postponed at the insistence of the Government of Canada, a by-product of political tensions in the Ukraine with Russian as the instigator. This is a situation that need not have happened if Canada had a progressive space policy in place.
Read More »AuroraMax Observatory Captures Lunar Eclipse and Aurora Borealis
On April 15, 2014, many early morning skywatchers were treated to total eclipse of the Moon as it passed through Earth’s shadow. But few were lucky enough to see both the red Moon and the Red Planet awash in a sky full of green aurora.
Read More »CSA Releases Canada’s Space Policy Framework Promotional Video
What is Canada’s Future in Space? This promotional video provides remarks by Industry Minister James Moore and highlights of Canada’s past accomplishments as Canada’s new Space Policy Framework is outlined. Canada’s new Space Policy Framework was released on February 7, 2014 at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum in Ottawa.
Read More »Ted Talk: Chris Hadfield – What I Learned From Going Blind in Space
Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield delivered a Ted Talk in Vancouver on March 17th, 2014 discussing his experiences.
Read More »The Hunt Begins for Unusual Meteorite Near St. Thomas, Ontario
Researchers from Western University are excited at the possibility of finding an unusual meteorite or meteorites, as there could be more than one, that streaked over Southern Ontario Tuesday evening and landed somewhere between 5-7 kilometers north to northwest of St. Thomas, Ontario.
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