Kepler Communications, the Toronto based satellite telecommunications company, has 13 satellites in low Earth Orbit including eight launched on January 24th of this year. Documents filed with US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) state that they could launch over 24 more satellites this year. This page is for subscribers only. Already a subscriber? Log in. Fact-driven space news, columns, business, policy, technology and more. Support independent …

SpaceX has expanded its Starlink Better Than Nothing Beta to more service areas in Canada and within existing service areas. This is great news for those frustrated with their existing limited and expensive options. A note of caution is warranted though.

It will come as no surprise that Telesat has picked Thales Alenia Space as the prime contractor to build its low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellation. The selection was hinted at last summer in comments by Maxar CEO Dan Jablonsky. This page is for subscribers only. Already a subscriber? Log in. Fact-driven space news, columns, business, policy, technology and more. Support independent journalism. SUBSCRIBE TODAY

If you’re not familiar with Kymeta, the company uses the catch phrase “comms on the move” to describe itself. One person SpaceQ spoke with from the defense sector called their metamaterial technology magical.

On February 3rd NASA issued a press release that got little notice stating they and three international partners, including Canada, had signed a statement of intent to assess a mission to map ice on Mars. The press release made sure to tie into the lunar Artemis program. There's just one thing though, Canada had already signed on to a similar NASA mission and even had …

GHGSat's Hugo satellite which was launched a week ago has delivered its "first light" data with encouraging results. This page is for subscribers only. Already a subscriber? Log in. Fact-driven space news, columns, business, policy, technology and more. Support independent journalism. SUBSCRIBE TODAY

MDA announced today that it will design and build a commercial synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite for its own commercial use, a departure in how it has previously approached satellite development. This page is for subscribers only. Already a subscriber? Log in. Fact-driven space news, columns, business, policy, technology and more. Support independent journalism. SUBSCRIBE TODAY

Late last week the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) opened up the Cycle 3 science guest observation program for the NEOSSat space telescope.

This past week the University of Guelph physics department in collaboration with the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada – Montreal Centre and the Institute for Research on Exoplanets at the Université de Montréal spent an evening discussing the latest news and research in the exciting field of exoplanets.

The US Space Development Agency (SDA) has posted the following Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) that is open to Canadian companies: National Defense Space Architecture (NDSA), Systems, Technologies, and Emerging Capabilities (STEC).