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The Canadian Space Agency and the Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation today announced that 36,500 images collected by the RADARSAT-1 satellite are now available on the Earth Observation Data Management System.

Honeywell is a global company with over 130,000 employees of which about 3600 are based in Canada. In 2015 the company announced it was acquiring Cambridge, Ontario based COM DEV. It was seen as a smart move at the time.

NASA announced yesterday that Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques will participate in his first spacewalk currently scheduled for April 8.

The Haughton Crater on Devon Island in Canada’s high Arctic is home to the only known impact crater in a polar desert. This makes it an ideal analog for a Mars on Earth research station.

Today the Space Advisory Board issued the following statement in support of the new Canadian Space Strategy while also saying more works needs to be done.

The federal government finally announced its new space strategy. It has been a long-time coming (16 years, to be exact) and has generated mixed reactions.

Investment in space startups by angels and the venture community is growing at a rapid rate according to Space Angels, and that bodes well for the future of the commercial space sector.

Maritime Launch Services submitted its environmental Focus Report to Nova Scotia Environment on March 11 and yesterday it was posted online.

As had been reported, the 2019 Canadian federal budget includes new funding that will be spent towards securing Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite capacity. 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

While SpaceX, Blue Origin and other rocket providers target reusability, there’s a part of rockets that hasn’t changed very much in recent decades – the fuel.