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Earlier this year Jeremy Hansen was selected to be the first Canadian astronaut to participate in the Artemis program and was assigned to the Artemis 2 mission that will fly around the moon as early as late 2024.

Twenty asteroids now have Canadian individuals in their names, thanks to the efforts of The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (RASC).

Canadian space company MDA has announced that it will be significantly expanding their operation in the United Kingdom (UK). 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

In this column I am going to take a slightly different viewpoint than my last two. In the last two columns I provide what I think is sound advice to founders of small businesses on how to deal with customers. In the last column I specifically singled out government customers.

If Maritime Launch Services is going to keep to its revised development plan it will need to secure funding for the first phase of that plan. To that end, the company is offering a private placement of unsecured convertible debentures with a minimum gross proceeds of $2 million. This page is for subscribers only. Already a subscriber? Log in. Fact-driven space news, columns, business, policy, …

The European Space Agency (ESA) has chosen Ottawa-based Square Peg Communications to assist them with developing satellite-based 5G communications.

Canada is heading back to the International Space Station, this time on a Starliner flight. Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut Joshua Kutryk will fly the first operational Starliner mission no earlier than 2025, the agency announced today (Nov. 22). And that’s not the only flight opportunity in the works.

The Canadian Space Agency is offering students access to a pool of $550,000 in grant money over three years to participate in space conferences and training events.

MDA had added another satellite constellation order to its current backlog, this time for an undisclosed customer.

Next Generation Manufacturing Canada (NGen) has launched the Moonshot 4 Mining, Minerals and Manufacturing (M4M3) initiative. It is a $5.5 million program designed to use locally available resources wherever possible to support on- and off-world construction projects. NGen is an industry-driven not-for-profit organization that is spearheading Canada’s Global Innovation Cluster for Advanced Manufacturing, which is backed by Innovation, Science, and Economic Development Canada. This page …