The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) has released a Request for Information (RFI) tender aimed at companies who are interested in supporting the Canadian CubeSat Project (CCP).
Read More »Canada’s Fledging Rover Program Is Facing A Rocky Future – Space Quarterly Archives
Continuing with our Summer Reading Series of articles or interviews that still have some relevance today, we present Canada’s Fledging Rover Program Is Facing A Rocky Future which outlined the state of rover development in Canada in the fall of 2011. The story was written by Elizabeth Howell and originally published in Space Quarterly Magazine in December 2011. Six years later many of the same players are still …
Read More »Canada Edges Closer to Commitment on Quantum Encryption Demonstration Satellite
The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) this week released a Request for Information (RFI) for the proposed Quantum Encryption and Science Satellite (QEYSSat) mission.
Read More »Mission Approved – Bob Richards on the Moon Express Plan to Commercialize the Moon
Moon Express has raised $45 million(US), built hardware, tested some of it, and gotten the FAA and other government agencies to approve of its first commercial mission to the moon, and in less than a year might have its first spacecraft on the moon.
Read More »Natural Resources Canada in Apparent Conflict of Interest Over Ground Station Licensing
While innovation is seemingly in every funding press release issued by the government, there’s little innovation happening in Ottawa’s bureaucracy, and that’s hampering business to the point that foreign investment dollars in Canada’s space sector might head for more responsive countries. Throw in an apparent government conflict of interest, and you’ve got a Made in Ottawa bureaucratic migraine for the government.
Read More »Opinion – Canada Must be Extremely Cautious in any Free Trade Deal with China
Between April 24-28 of this year China and Canada met in Ottawa for the second exploratory discussions on a possible free trade agreement. If Canada moves forward with negotiating a free trade agreement it must ensure that Canada’s domestic space sector is adequately protected, unlike the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) agreement with the European Union.
Read More »Vector Space Systems – Small Rockets, Small Satellites and Possibly a Big Payday
In 2016 Jim Cantrell and group of veteran space professionals started Vector Space Systems. Their goal? Nothing less than than building a small satellite launch company capable of launching upwards of 100 small satellites a year from at least three spaceports.
Read More »Satellite Canada Looking to Launch Space Innovation Supercluster
When the Liberal government announced the Innovation Superclusters Initiative (ISI) with up to $950 million in funds available through 2022, the space community immediately took notice and began scouring the program guide for details. From the get go, one of the biggest challenges would be the meeting the matching fund requirement of the $125-$250 million for each supercluster.
Read More »MDA Sells Majority Stake in its Satellite Servicing Business and Gets its First Customer
MDA, which had announced in early May the creation of Space Infrastructure Services (SIS) to handle its nascent satellite servicing business, today announced that Finance Technology Leverage LLC would take a majority stake in SIS and that global satellite communications company SES would be its first customer.
Read More »SpaceQ Podcast Episode 3 – The Space Security Index and Canada
My guest for episode 3 is Jessica West who is the Project Manager for the annual Space Security Index published by Project Ploughshares.
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