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Get a first look at the Canadian Space Agency’s learning resource being developed for Expedition 34/35. Discover how a 3-D avatar of astronaut Chris Hadfield will teach students about biological life support in a zero-g environment and how attitude control systems are essential for the International Space Station. Coming in Fall 2012. Courtesy the Canadian Space Agency.
Read More »UPDATE: High School Students Send Canadian Legoman Into The Stratosphere
Two 17 year old Toronto area high school students launched a Lego man 24 km into the mid stratosphere – and they have pictures and video to prove it.
Read More »Canadian Satellite Design Challenge Announces Final List of Entrants
Geocentrix Technologies Ltd. of Vancouver has released the final list of entrants for Canada’s first Canadian Satellite Design Challenge. The primary objective of the Satellite Design Challenge is for teams of university students to design and build an operational small-satellite using commercially-available off-the-shelf components.
Read More »Canadian Space Agency Ramps up Capacity Building Efforts
The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) this week released an Announcement of Opportunity (AO) for a Cluster Pilot as part of their efforts to increase capacity building in their space science and technology segment. Funding for the AO is estimated at $2.25 million over three years for up to five cluster projects selected with a maximum of $450,000 per project.
Read More »Canadian Universities Join Consortium to Answer Fundamental Questions of Cosmology
Seven Canadian universities have joined a U.S. led consortium to build the 25 meter Cerro Chajnantor Atacama Telescope (CCAT) in northern Chile at the site of the highest permanent ground-based telescopes in the world in the hopes of answering some of the fundamental questions of cosmology.
Read More »NASA Tweetup Rolls with "Wheels"
Astronaut and Expedition 25 Commander Doug “Wheels” Wheelock was the honored guest at a Tweetup held at NASA Headquarters on Mar. 16. More than 90 “Tweeps,” or users of the social medium Twitter, were on hand to see Wheelock’s presentation of his recent five-month-plus stay aboard the International Space Station.
Read More »The Canadian Satellite Design Challenge
With the aim to bring satellite research to the classrooms of university students, the Canadian Satellite Design Challenge is seeking ideas for one of Canada’s next microsatellites.
Read More »Canadian Space Agency Agreement with Nova Scotia Broadens Education Reach
The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) took its first foray into deeper provincial educational partnerships when it signed a memorandum of understanding with Nova Scotia education officials, a CSA representative says. While the agency currently has lesson plans and other educational items geared to curricula in provinces across the country, the CSA is targeting deeper involvement with certain areas.
Read More »Canadian Space Science Data Portal Prepares for CASSIOPE Data
Canadian scientists will receive a gold mine of new data soon after the CAScade, Smallsat and IOnospheric Polar Explorer (CASSIOPE) satellite launches in 2011. Scientists will be able to access the data though a central web site, the newly upgraded Canadian Space Science Data Portal (CSSDP) on the ultra-high speed Canada Advanced Research and Innovation Network (CANARIE).
Read More »Lecture: The World At Night: One People, One Sky
Astronomer David Dodge who worked for 35 years with the H.R. MacMillan Space Centre will be speaking at the University of British Columbia this Thursday evening. His educational presentation is titled: The World At Night: One People, One Sky.
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