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Launch Canada’s 2024 Launch Competition enters its fifth day today in Timmins and you can watch the livestream all day long.

Launch Canada’s 2024 Launch Competition enters its fourth day today in Timmins and you can watch the livestream all day long.

Launch Canada’s 2024 Launch Competition enters its third day today in Timmins and you can watch the livestream all day long.

The Launch Canada’s 2024 Launch Competition enters its second day today in Timmins and you can watch the livestream all day long.

The Launch Canada’s 2024 Launch Competition starts today in Timmins and you can watch the livestream all day long. And as we reported earlier, the event and competition is expanding this year.

The Launch Canada student rocketry competition, now independent from the Anangokaa (formerly Stardust) Festival, is largely staying the course as it moves towards its 2024 event. The major change to the competition: further expansion, as Launch Canada begins to incorporate local high school students into the competition.

The Canadian Space Agency is taking a new student-focused “Rover Driving Academy” Canada-wide. According to an announcement from Mission Control, whose Spacefarer technology is used for the lunar rover simulation, the CSA is working with Mission Control “to provide the Rover Driving Academy for students across Canada.” 

With the theme of food in space, the 2023-24 winners of the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) Space Brain Hack student Initiative have been announced. This is the second year of the initiative.

The Canadian CanSat Design Challenge (CCSDC) recently finished the 2023-2024 launch campaign. The four-day event near Lethbridge, Alberta, was an opportunity for high school students to build tiny simulated satellites the size of a pop can, with an eye to developing an interest in space and a better understanding of the skills and requirements involved in satellites.

The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) has funded 16 proposals with a total of $26 million in funding for the Collaborative Research and Training Experience (CREATE) program.