Last week COM DEV announced that Canada’s earth observation Maritime Monitoring and Messaging Microsatellite (M3MSat) launch was being postponed at the insistence of the Government of Canada, a by-product of political tensions in the Ukraine with Russian as the instigator. This is a situation that need not have happened if Canada had a progressive space policy in place.
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The Canadian Space Commerce Association’s annual conference this year will on focus New Manufacturing for New Space as its theme. The conference will be held at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre on Thursday, March 13, 2014.
Read More »Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne was in Cambridge Ontario to announce a $1-million grant to COM DEV to boost the company in creating more jobs and keeping it’s place as a top company in the space sector.
Read More »It’s been a long wait but after completing extensive testing Canada’s first dedicated military satellite, Sapphire, is ready for service.
Read More »XPAntarctik, a crew of six experienced explorers, leaves Canada today on the first leg of an unprecedented 45‑day expedition to Antarctica. During their expedition, the team will be testing Astroskin, a prototype “smart shirt” for space for the Canadian Space Agency (CSA).
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The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) has released its annual State of the Canadian Space Sector for 2012. The report, 24 pages in length, notes a decline in overall revenues of 4.5% from the previous year with total revenues coming in at $3.327 billion.
Read More »MacDonald , Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA) announced on Monday that it signed a contract in excess of CA$4 million to provide OHB System AG with satellite communication electronics to be integrated into the EDRS-C telecommunication satellite as part of the European Data Relay Satellite (EDRS) system.
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UrtheCast Corp. announces that on Dec. 27, 2013, its two Earth observation cameras were installed as planned on the outside of the International Space Station (ISS). However, Mission Controllers were unable to confirm that the cameras were receiving power from the ISS.
Read More »Tomorrow over 600 attendees will gather in Ottawa for the annual Canadian Aerospace Summit hosted by the Aerospace Industries Association of Canada (AIAC). This years theme is “Engage in Change”.
Read More »COM DEV (TSE:CDV) which on October 10th announced its largest commercial contract of $65 million ever, saw its stock target price boosted to $5.00 from $4.75 the next day by Canaccord Genuity. The renewed confidence in the company comes as analysts believe the company has rebounded from the lows of 2011.
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