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The winner of Canada’s first Canadian Satellite Design Challenge (CSDC) is the University of Concordia in Montreal, Quebec.
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"Canada On Orbit" Gala to Celebrate Alouette 1 Anniversary and Satellite Contest Winners
A special gala evening is planned for later this month to mark a significant Canadian space historical event and the culmination of a major space contest. The “Canada On Orbit” gala dinner will mark the 50th anniversary of the launch of Alouette 1, Canada’s first satellite, launched September 29, 1962. At the gala, the winner of the 2012 Canadian Satellite Design Challenge will be announced.
Read More »Kitchener-Waterloo to Host Three Day Southern Ontario Science and Space Festival
This coming weekend Kitchener-Waterloo will host the Southern Ontario Science and Space Research and Technology Festival at the Kitchener City Hall and other local venues. The three day festival starting this Friday includes public screenings of popular science fiction movies, a full afternoon of talks from researcher and engineers on Sunday and a live interactive webcast with Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hanson.
Read More »Astronaut Chris Hadfield gets Virtual for Education
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.
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