Education

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.

The not-for-profit Canadian Space Technology Advancement Group is once again organizing the Canadian International Rover Challenge (CIRC).

When the Diefenbaker government announced the cancellation of Canada’s Avro CF-105 Arrow in February 1959, few could have predicted the effect on the American space program.

A we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission it’s important to look back at the time of the Apollo program in the 60’s and early 70’s to better understand the motivations of the Apollo program and what was happening in the world at that time.

How would like to spend a year consulting the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) on how to inspire Canadian youth as part of the Junior Astronauts initiative?

This past school semester, Ryerson University engineering students found themselves battling school administration in an attempt to build their own rocket engine.