Maritime Launch Services has closed its non-brokered private placement and raised gross proceeds of $2,282,000.

In early October over 280,000 students globally participated as part of teams in 2400 locations in the NASA led Space Apps Challenge. From that weekend hackathon 587 teams were selected as Global Nominees of which 40 were selected as Global Finalists including two from Canada.

Canadensys Aerospace has hired veteran Gilles Leclerc as Director, Government & International Affairs a year removed from retiring after a long career at the Canadian Space Agency.

Following a successful Phase 1 contract, Telesat Government Solutions, the wholly owned subsidiary of Telesat, was awarded a Phase 2 contract by DARPA for its Lightspeed Constellation.

Québec City based ABB Canada announced last week that it would be building four more hyperspectral cameras for GHGSat and that they would be delivered in 2024.

Earlier this year Jeremy Hansen was selected to be the first Canadian astronaut to participate in the Artemis program and was assigned to the Artemis 2 mission that will fly around the moon as early as late 2024.

The Canadian Space Agency is offering students access to a pool of $550,000 in grant money over three years to participate in space conferences and training events.

MDA had added another satellite constellation order to its current backlog, this time for an undisclosed customer.

Telesat announced today that it had signed a 10+ year agreement with networking and laser communications technology company Aalyria to use its Spacetime product for the Lightspeed Constellation.

SpaceX will attempt to launch the Transporter-9 rideshare mission on Saturday, November 11 which has 113 payloads including seven Canadian satellites from GHGSat, Kepler Communications, Wyvern, and the University of Toronto Aerospace Team (UTAT) Space Systems.