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NASA has awarded nine companies a combined $24 million USD including MDA Space's Houston office to support long-term lunar exploration.
Read More »MDA Space Awarded Artemis Program Study Contract by NASA
GHGSat Data Quantifies Methane Emissions from Sabotaged Nord Stream Pipeline
The September 2022 sabotage of the Nord Stream pipeline caused massive methane emissions, quantified at 465,000 metric tons by GHGSat satellite data. This emission, comparable to three million cars annually, highlights the value of satellite-based greenhouse gas monitoring technologies.
Read More »Canadian Venture Fund Leads $100 million USD Funding Round for Australia’s Fleet Space in Critical Minerals Play
A Canadian pension plan venture fund has made a significant investment in Australia’s Fleet Space Technologies. It is the third investment they’ve made in a space company.
Read More »Two Canadian Teams Selected as Global Winners for the NASA Space Apps Challenge
NASA announced the global winners for the 10 different categories in the 2024 Space Apps Challenge and they include two Canadian teams.
Read More »Blue Origin’s New Glenn Reaches Orbit on First Launch
It is rare that a new rocket successfully reaches orbit on its maiden launch, but that’s exactly what the Blue Origin New Glenn launch vehicle did in the early morning hours.
Read More »Trio of Canadian Military Satellites Launched
Unless you were paying attention to changes in manifest for the SpaceX Transporter-12 rideshare mission which launched yesterday, you wouldn't know that the Grey Jay Constellation of three small satellites for Defence Research and Development Canada had launched. 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
Read More »SpaceX Launches Lunar Landers With Canadian Tech
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched at 1:11 a.m. ET carrying two landers headed to the lunar surface that included technology from at least two Canadian companies.
Read More »NordSpace Successfully Static Tests Canadian-Built Suborbital Rocket
A Canadian company is a step closer to being able to launch spacecraft after NordSpace completed a successful static-test of its Canadian-built, fully integrated Taiga suborbital rocket on January 6th, 2025.
Read More »Telesat Makes Leaderships Changes
Telesat Chief Technology Officer David Wendling is retiring at the end of February and the company is adding a Chief Network and Information Officer to its leadership team.
Read More »Canadian Space Agency Allocates $15 Million for new Space Technology Development
The Canadian Space Agency is allocating $15 million towards a new announcement of opportunity (AO) from the Space Technology Development Program (STDP).
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