While originally designed to last only two years, SCISAT is set to celebrate its fifteenth birthday this August. The concept for the mission came about over 20 years ago and some of the data being collected is still unique. There’s no other satellite like it, and plans to replace it are in a bureaucratic holding pattern.
Read More »Scientific Ambitions and Dreams – A Personal Story
Sara Mazrouei has been a member of the SpaceQ team since last September and has a passion for sharing the wonders of the universe with the public. She also has a personal story, a story of her journey to fulfill her dreams and an obstacle she is facing. This is her story as told at a Story Collider show in Toronto.
Read More »Can the Canadian Government Keep up With the Growing SmallSat Community?
The Canadian SmallSat Symposium held in Toronto, February 13-15, attracted national and international individuals, ranging from small start-ups, law firms, private commercial space corporates, to the government, all involved in the Canadian small satellite and space sector.
Read More »It Takes Two Crazy Things to Create Twisted Repeating Fast Radio Bursts
The only known repeating Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) have only become more interesting by giving astronomers more clues about their home.
Read More »‘Oumuamua May Have Opened the Door for Other Interstellar Visitors
One of the biggest astronomy discoveries of 2017 was the first detection of an interstellar object visiting our Solar System by Canadian Dr. Robert Weryk.
Read More »Nüvü Camēras New Canadian Eye in the Sky
Montreal based Nüvü Camēras’s latest product just became the world’s first camera capable of seeing in extreme low light and qualified for operation in a space-like environment.
Read More »Governor General’s and Science Policy Conference Message of Creating a Science-Literate Society Lost in Media Frenzy
The Evening of Celebration and Inspiration, Celebrating 150 Years of Canadian Science Achievement, lived up to its title at the ninth annual Canadian Science Policy Conference in Ottawa. The lineup of fantastic featured speakers, as well as the presence of sensational scientists and policy makers made for a truly inspiring evening.
Read More »Seeing the Personal Side of Science, With the First Ever Story Collider in Canada
Funny, emotional, and intimate stories through Story Collider were a new addition to this year’s Science Literacy Week events.
Read More »Canada’s New Groundbreaking CHIME Radio Telescope Set to Shed Light on Cosmology’s Biggest Mysteries
Sometimes, ‘it takes a whole village to raise a child’, in this case, it takes most of Canada’s radio astronomer community to build a telescope.
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