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Days before the historic announcement April 3 by the Canadian Space Agency concerning the astronaut who will fly around the Moon in 2024 or so, MDA announced its full-year results yesterday (March 23) for 2022 showing strong financials in part due to Canadarm3.

In this episode of the Terranauts podcast we move into 1966, NASA is growing and the world is changing.

The crisis at Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) in early March appears to have abated, but questions remain about how badly exposed space startups are to potentially unstable financial institutions, including Canadian space firms. This page is for subscribers only. Already a subscriber? Log in. Fact-driven space news, columns, business, policy, technology and more. Support independent journalism. SUBSCRIBE TODAY

Vancouver based startup Metaspectral, a remote sensing software company, has been accepted into the Venture Catalyst Space at the University of South Australia’s Innovation & Collaboration Centre (ICC).

Magellan Aerospace has been awarded a $15.8 million contract by the Canadian government to design, build, launch, and operate the Redwing space domain awareness microsatellite. This page is for subscribers only. Already a subscriber? Log in. Fact-driven space news, columns, business, policy, technology and more. Support independent journalism. SUBSCRIBE TODAY

The Canadian Space Agency’s (CSA) recently announced $6.8 million in funding for Earth observation technologies included 10 R&D contracts, recently discussed by SpaceQ. Of those contracts, four of them went to MDA, which is not a surprise given MDA’s experience.

There was no press release, no hoopla, just some social media posts. That’s how the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) approached releasing its new branding.

Zenith Canada has selected its second class of fellows. The not-for-profit organization founded in 2020 aims to develop students and keep that talent in Canada working in the space sector.

As SpaceX continue to increase the number of Starlink satellites being launched, including its new generation of satellites, it’s also mindful that competition is coming, and fast.

Who should be allowed to practice medicine in space? The logical answer would seem to be ‘medical doctors’, but the actual answer isn’t as simple as that.