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What if you could put a Synthetic Aperture Radar on small satellite? Would this disrupt the existing market? That’s exactly what Finnish company ICEYE has done and is trying to do. 

The first of two scheduled spacewalks by astronauts on the international space station went almost by the book and succeeded in replacing an aged Latching End Effector on the Canadarm2.

In two planned spacewalks, astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) will install a new Canadian made Latching End Effector (LEE), or robotic hand, on the Canadarm2, replacing its ageing counterpart.

For the first time a Canadian satellite has been launched by China. Kepler Communications, a Toronto based startup, had its first satellite launched today as secondary payload on a Long March 11 rocket. Canadian satellites have previously flown on American, Russian and Indian launch vehicles.

NASA has scheduled spacewalks on January 23rd and 29th to replace another degraded Canadarm2 hand on the International Space Station (ISS).

In anticipation of a contribution to a future international mission beyond low Earth orbit, MDA has issued an unprecedented Request for Information (RFI). As far as I can recall, this is the first time MDA has issued an RFI of this nature.

This past week at the Lunar Science for Landed Missions Workshop, two commercial landing opportunities panels were organized that included representatives from Moon Express, Astrobotic, Blue Origin, iSpace, Masten Space, PT Scientists, Team Indus, Masten and Ceres Robotics.

It was in the end, a perfect looking launch. That sigh of relief heard from Telesat officials in India could be heard all the way back at headquarters in Ottawa. 

China has set a very ambitious launch schedule for 2018 announcing in early January it would try to conduct over 40 government and commercial launches.

On August 31, 2017, India’s PSLV-C39 launched normally but ultimately failed when the fairing failed to separate. This Thursday evening, India will launch it’s next PSLV-C40 mission with Telesat’s LEO-1 technology demonstration satellite on-board. After losing their other technology demonstration satellite, LEO-2, on a failed Russian launch last November, they must be a little nervous.