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COM DEV International Ltd. has released its fourth quarter and year end financial results. Revenues in 2011 were $203.2 million compared to $220.9 million in 2010 – an 8% decrease.
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NASA Cold Weather Airborne Campaign to Measure Falling Snow Over Canada
NASA scientists are coming to Canada to study snowfall! Beginning Jan. 17, NASA will fly an airborne DC8 science laboratory above Canadian snowstorms to tackle a difficult challenge facing the upcoming Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) satellite mission — measuring snowfall from space.
Read More »MDA Terminates Space Infrastructure Servicing Agreement with Intelsat
Macdonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA) has announced that an agreement that it made with Intelsat S.A. last March to jointly develop a satellite servicing vehicle has ceased to be in effect.
Read More »Expedition 30 Launches To The Space Station
Expedition 30 Soyuz Commander Oleg Kononenko, NASA Flight Engineer Don Petit and European Space Agency Flight Engineer Andre Kuipers were launched on the Russian aboard their Soyuz TMA-03M spacecraft at 13:16 UTC (8:16 a.m. EST) Wednesday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
Read More »University of Western Ontario Astronomers Capture Bright Fireball on Video
Just after 6:00 pm last Monday, a bright fireball shot across the sky, visible from Hamilton to Peterborough. A system of video cameras set up by astronomers captured video of the event which may make it possible to recover meteorite fragments.
Read More »Canadian Space Summit Brings Together Stakeholders In Calgary
The Canadian Space Summit is an annual conference that brings together all elements of the Canadian space industry. In addition to displays, booths, and activities, the centerpiece of the Summit are three days of paper sessions covering a wide variety of topics. Sponsored by the Canadian Space Society, the 2011 summit was recently from November 23 – 25 in Calgary.
Read More »ABB Provides Technology To Monitor Climate In The Arctic
ABB Canada will provide key technologies in the development of an instrument to be used to make meteorological observations onboard satellites for the Canadian Space Agency’s Polar Communications and Weather (PCW) mission.
Read More »Canadian Space Agency Requests Proposals To Display Canadarm At St. Hubert Headquarters
A Request For Proposal (RFP) was released this week by the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) that will result in the display of the Canadian-built Canadarm which flew on the space shuttle Endeavour at its headquarters in St Hubert Qubec.
Read More »Canadarm Celebrates Its 30th Anniversary
Thirty years ago this month, Canada’s contribution to the US manned spaceflight program flew on its first mission. The (Space) Shuttle Remote Manipulator System (SRMS) flew on the second space shuttle mission, STS-2 and was tested on the second day of the flight – November 13, 1981
Read More »Progress Supply Ship Successfully Launched Into Orbit
An unmanned Progress cargo ship loaded with 2.9 tons of supplies was successfully launched this morning. Bound for the International Space Station, it is the first launch attempt after the failure of a Soyuz rocket with another unmanned Progress last August. With this successful launch, the way is clear for the launch of the next ISS three man crew November 14.
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