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Toronto based Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) announced today it had successfully demonstrated its drag sail technology when the CanX-7 satellite deorbited last month.
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Video – Taking action on climate change
The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) has released a short background video on how they use data collected from Canadian and partner satellites to monitor the Earth and climate change.
Read More »Roadwork begins at Spaceport Nova Scotia
Maritime Launch Services Inc. (MLSI) recently provided an update to stakeholders that included news about initial roadwork to allow the Spaceport Nova Scotia design team with soil and rock data. The roadwork is one of several new developments the company announced. 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 …
Read More »Missing – Canadian national space policy, strategy and plan
A new space policy paper published by the Canadian Global Affairs Institute spells out what stakeholders have known for some time, a true Canadian national space policy, strategy and plan are still missing.
Read More »MDA gets sizeable contract from Lockheed Martin for antennas
MDA has received another sizeable contract, this time placed by Lockheed Martin for the U.S. Space Development Agency (SDA) Tranche 1 Transport Layer (T1TL) program.
Read More »The Canadian Space Agency provides $1.75M for 7 Moon infrastructure ideas
The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) has awarded contracts to five companies, including a startup, to conduct studies for seven infrastructure ideas for the Moon.
Read More »CSA targets Earth observation continuity in new contract
A newly posted notice of potential procurement (NPP) offers a preselected list of possible Canadian Space Agency (CSA) vendors the chance to bid on work for “continuity of space-based Earth observations services for the Government of Canada.”
Read More »Nanoracks performs novel space-based metal cutting experiment
Space-station builder Voyager Space and their subsidiary Nanoracks announced that they worked with Maxar to perform a cutting-edge experiment that was recently launched on SpaceX's Transporter-5 rideshare mission. The experiment? Cutting metal without edges and the first results are in. 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 »Gemini Powers Up
In this episode of the Terranauts podcast we continue the story of the Gemini program, and finally, NASA is ready to move forward with the programs mission.
Read More »Western Space Day 2022 – Full Blast!
On May 17th the Western Institute for Earth and Space Exploration (Western Space) hosted their annual Space Day in person.
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