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New telemetry management company Sift, fresh from a USD $7.5 million fundraising round and an exit from stealth, is looking to leverage their founders' SpaceX experiences to help manage and store the vast quantities of data generated by space companies, and by many other hardware-focused companies with large quantities of machine-generated data. This page is for subscribers only. Already a subscriber? Log in. Fact-driven space …

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.

In August the federal Liberal government announced it would be refocusing government spending and would initially cut $15 billion over five years. This past week Treasury Board President Anita Anand provided the details on $500 million in cuts from this current fiscal years planned $443 billion budget. The Canadian Space Agency was not spared, having to freeze $8,023,000 in planned spending. There's more to the …

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.

Canadarm and satellite operator MDA saw revenues soar 19 percent year-over-year, and increased profitability, in its third-quarter results released Wednesday (Nov. 8).

While Telesat is watching the rise of SpaceX's Starlink Internet services for the commercial market, it maintains government and enterprise are eagerly awaiting the arrival of their Lightspeed low Earth orbit satellite constellation (LEO). 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 didn’t waste any time in completing the acquisition of the SatixFy Communications Ltd. digital payload division.

MDA is once again going to launch a satellite on a SpaceX Falcon 9 launch vehicle. This time it’s for the CHORUS satellite. Previously, MDA was the first commercial customer to launch with SpaceX for the launch of the CASSIOPE satellite on September 29, 2013. SpaceX also launched the RADARSAT Constellation Mission trio of satellites in 2019.

The world’s space economy is offering billions of dollars in opportunities to the Canadian space industry, but there are obstacles in the way. 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

Maritime Launch Services (MLS) is launching a new commercial suborbital program called Dedicated Altitude Research and Testing (DART). Key to the program is the acquisition of a suborbital launch system. 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