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In discussing last week’s budget, Jay Aspin, Conservative MP for Nipissing-Timiskaming and Chair of the Parliamentary Space Caucus, told Bay Today that “we’re going to be launching satellites out of North Bay.”

Today’s federal budget included a few surprises for Canada’s space program. The space sector had become accustomed to expecting little or no mention in the annual budget. Perhaps as this is an election budget, the government wanted to cover all its bases.

The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) has issued a notice of proposed procurement for 23 identified Priority Technologies (PT) through the Space Technology Development Program (STDP).

St. John Paul II Catholic School in Bolton is the new home of an out-of-this world space experience in the form of a Canadian mission control centre for the world’s first ever elementary-school built satellite.

The Prime Minister announced today that veteran public servant Sylvain Laporte has been named as President of the Canadian Space Agency. Mr. Laporte is currently the Commissioner of Patents and Registrar of Trade-marks, Canadian Intellectual Property Office, Industry Canada. He will commence his new duties on March 9th. Mr. Laporte has a long history in public service working at Industry Canada, the Canada Post Corporation …

This is part 2 of An Overview of Canadian Military Space in 2014. Part 1 is available here.

Arguably 2014 was a watershed year in the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) military space program. Up until this year the military space program was focused on delivering capability that could be used by the Navy, Army and Air Force as joint force enablers but rarely were those capabilities tightly integrated into operations, nor were they exploited to their maximum advantage. To do so requires a …