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.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to launch tonight at 8:28 pm eastern on a resupply mission to the International Space Station. Included is a batch of Canadian science equipment along with new some new research experiments including NASA’s ILLUMA-T laser communication demonstration.

The not-for-profit Canadian Satellite Design Challenge Management Society (CSDCMS) has kicked off another round of the CanSat Design Challenge and the CubeSat Design Challenge.

The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) has released its first Departmental Sustainable Development Strategy and it covers the period of 2023 through 2027.

MDA didn’t waste any time in completing the acquisition of the SatixFy Communications Ltd. digital payload division.

Halloween is only weeks and NASA is having some fun with its latest release from the James Webb Space Telescope adding the caption Grim grinning ghosts 👻.

In parts 1 and 2 of this series, we considered the Executive Order relating to space resources and the Artemis Accords, and what they might imply for Canada if this country signed onto supporting them. In part 3, we will attempt to wrap up the discussion within a global context, including some concluding remarks.

In part 1 of this series, we considered the Executive Order issued by the U.S. President on “Encouraging International Support for the Recovery and Use of Space Resources”, dated 6 April 2020, and what this might imply for Canada if it signed onto supporting the order.

The United States government has recently announced two major proclamations in relation to their current and future space exploration program and has requested prospective international partners, including Canada, to effectively embrace these declarations if they wish to join the U.S. program.

India used its advanced anti-ballistic missile defence capability to conduct a kinetic anti-satellite test (“Mission Shakti”) against one of its own satellites on March 27.