Education

In this episode of Terranauts we feature Dr. Gordon Osinski, a professor at Western University and the director of the Institute for Earth and Space Exploration.

This afternoon Maritime Launch Services (MLS) and St. Francis Xavier University (StFX) will sign a Memo Of Understanding (MOU) that is the start of a new partnership and what both parties hope will be a long collaboration.

The Perimeter Institute (PI) has released its Fall/Winter 2019 Inside the Perimeter magazine which highlights computational physics and its increasing importance at the PI.

This week on the Terranauts podcast we have a very special guest, Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield.

The Ryerson Propulsion Group which had seen its funding partially approved, then frozen, has now seen its funding approved, after it became public.

At the recent Montreal Space Symposium SpaceQ had an opportunity to speak with the organizers of Launch Canada and the Canadian Satellite Design Challenge to get update on their respective programs.

MONTREAL – As space technology improves to look for life beyond Earth, a panel of experts urged that humanity keep itself open about what we might find out there – an important point as a new generation of life-searchers (ranging from Mars 2020 to the James Webb Space Telescope) embark on their cosmic journeys in the early 2020s.

The Canadian Space Agency Tweeted yesterday that that the first Junior Astronaut activities are available for teachers, educators, parents and youth group leaders.

The Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS Canada) have released their projects and events for 2019-20.

The Canadian Space Agency has selected Western University to help them guide the Junior Astronauts initiative with the program goal of engaging 80,000 youth across Canada during the current school year.