With the two year anniversary of its launch coming up, the small Near-Earth Object Surveillance Satellite (NEOSSat) is still only partially achieving its mission goals. The updated mission news is a mix of good and bad.
Read More »On the occasion of the state visit by French President François Hollande, Canada and France signed a new space cooperative agreement last week. The agreement comes on the heels of another one signed with Israel at the recent International Astronautical Congress on Toronto in early October.
Read More »The government today announced that Canadian Space Agency (CSA) General President Walter Natynczyk is leaving the agency this week and will start on Monday as the Deputy Minister at Veterans Affairs.
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The technology and expertise developed to build the first Canadarm not only paved the way for its descendants, Canadarm2 and Dextre, that are in great part responsible for the successful assembly and operating of the International Space Station, it also translated into new technology for the operating room.
Read More »Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut Jeremy Hansen has completed his week long simulation mission in the undersea Aquarius habitat as the exploration Lead for NEEMO 19 (NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations) with an international crew.
Read More »Twelve companies will receive contracts totalling just under $6.7 million to deliver Earth Observation (EO) products designed to benefit Canadians. The data will be supplied by Canadian Space Agency supported Earth Observation missions including RADARSAT-2.
Read More »From June 17 to 19, the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) and McGill University will host the 12th International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation in Space (i-SAIRAS 2014). The symposium will gather professionals from five space agencies worldwide who will share their latest research in the field of robotics.
Read More »A new “Canada from Space” map for educators is now available from a collaboration between the Royal Canadian Geographical Society (RCGS), the Canadian Space Agency and Canada’s Aviation and Space Museum (CASM).
Read More »This computer-generated animation shows Dextre, the Canadian robotic handyman on board the International Space Station (ISS), retrieving OPALS (short for Optical PAyload for Lasercomm Science) from inside the trunk of SpaceX’s Dragon cargo ship, and installing it on the exterior of the ISS.
Read More »This week, Canadian Space Agency (CSA) Astronaut Jeremy Hansen will be in Winnipeg, Manitoba to meet with Canadian students. He will speak with them about his journey and what it takes to become an astronaut.
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