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Before the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in orbit around asteroid Bennu can take a sample from the surface it needs to be mapped. That’s where Canada’s OSIRIS-REx Laser Altimeter (OLA) comes in.

Western University is holding its annual Space Day on Friday, April 12 that includes industry, government and academic experts along with student presentations that point to future Canadian space development.

It was just two months ago that Telesat announced that it had selected unproven, but well funded, Blue Origin as a launch partner for its low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellation. Today, they’ve also selected startup Relativity Space to be a launch partner.

It was years in the making, but on March 29 Global Affairs Canada issued Planet Labs a full operating license for their Inuvik based ground station.

Dedicated space accelerator programs are beginning to pop-up across the globe. The latest one launching a new cohort this year is the Los Angeles based Techstars Starburst Space Accelerator.

David Saint-Jacques will put years of training for a spacewalk to work on Monday April 8 as he and fellow Expedition 59 astronaut Anne McClain will exit the space stations Quest airlock around 8:05 a.m EDT to begin an approximate 7 hour spacewalk.

Yesterday UrtheCast announced its fourth quarter and fiscal year 2018 financial results which saw revenue of $15.6 million in 2018 compared to $40.4 million in 2017.

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.