Michel Doyon provides an update on the space debris efforts of the Canadian Space Agency at the 2012 Canadian Space Summit.
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Michel Doyon provides an update on the space debris efforts of the Canadian Space Agency at the 2012 Canadian Space Summit.
Read More »Manon Larocque of the Canadian Space Agency provides a high level view of Canada’s first 50 years in space at the Canadian Space Summit.
Read More »Dr. Gordon “Oz” Osinski moderated a panel on possible future directions for the Canadian Space Community. On the panel were Dr. Paul Sylvester, Memorial University, Dr. Pascale Ehrenfreund, Space Policy Institute, Dr. Jack Mustard, Brown University and Dr. Chris Herd, University of Alberta.
Read More »Dr. Pascale Ehrenfreund of the Space Policy Institute in Washington discussed space policy and Canada’s role as an international partner in space exploration at the 2012 Canadian Space Summit.
Read More »Nick Sweet of Space Concordia describes his teams winning CubeSat entry and provides an insightful look into the Canadian Satellite Design Challenge at the 2012 Canadian Space Summit.
Read More »Peter Visscher of Ontario Drive and Gear presented this talk titled “Critical Mobility Technologies to Enable Long Term Lunar Surface Activity” at the 2012 Canadian Space Summit. Peter’s company has been funded by the Canadian Space Agency to work on lunar rover prototypes. NASA has expressed an interest in using one of Canada’s lunar rovers for a future moon mission as part of a Canadian …
Read More »Dr. Ed Cloutis of the University of Manitoba, one of the scientific investigators, provides us with an overview of the OSIRIS-REx mission which will visit and sample asteroid 1999 RQ36.
Read More »Last week at the Canadian Space Summit Pete Worden was one of the invited keynote speakers. His topic was Small Satellites for Science and Other Uses and as an example: Earth Observation, promises and challenges. Among the technologies he discusses is the Interplanetary Internet and what the future might hold. The talk is about 30 minutes with a 12 minute question and answer session.
Read More »At the 2012 Canadian Space Summit held last week at the University of Western Ontario in London this keynote highlighted Canada’s 50 years in space. Perry Edmundson of COM DEV International with help from Dr. David Kendall of the Canadian Space Agency and Dr. Lucy Stojak of HEC Montreal put together this excellent presentation.
Read More »As a member of the Apollo 17 mission in 1972, former NASA Astronaut Harrison ‘Jack’ Schmitt was the last man to step onto the Moon. This week, Schmitt descended on Western University in London, Ont. to participate in the 2012 Canadian Space Summit.
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