At the International Astronautical Congress in Washington today, Nanoracks announced an agreement with Maritime Launch Services (MLS) to use the upper stages of the Cyclone 4M (C4M) rocket for Outposts.
Read More »Podcast: An Update on Launch Canada and the Canadian Satellite Design Challenge
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.
Read More »Nova Scotia Destined Cyclone 4M Rocket for Maritime Launch Services Passes Another Test
Maritime Launch Services (MLS) and the Ukrainian based Yuzhnoye Design Office announced this morning that Yuzhnoye had successfully completed the qualification test of the fully integrated upper stage of the Cyclone 4M rocket.
Read More »Kepler Communications and Other NGSO Constellation Operators Oppose SpaceX Plans
In an October 15, 2019 letter to the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) , Kepler Communications is petitioning the FCC to reconsider its order and authorization request from SpaceX to lower the altitude of 1,584 of its satellites to 550 km.
Read More »Terranauts – Mac Evans and Building a National Space Program
In the second episode of Terranauts, Iain Christie has a conversation with William “Mac” Evans.
Read More »Search for Life Beyond Earth Requires Flexibility in our Understanding
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.
Read More »Toronto-area Teen Models Asteroid Collision Risk
MONTREAL – At age 13, Artash Nath is already taking on the big questions puzzling scientists – climate change, planetary atmospheres and asteroid collisions.
Read More »Future Mars Missions Will Include Water-hunting and Growing Plants
MONTREAL – NASA’s push to land people on the moon in 2024 is a stepping stone to a much larger goal – landing people on Mars.
Read More »‘Translators’ and Cross-Disciplinary Work Needed to Solve Space Problems
MONTREAL – Space is not only an interdisciplinary business, but one that is in urgent need of artificial intelligence “translators” who can work across different fields, says the chair of Canada’s space advisory board.
Read More »Podcast: Election 2019 Town Hall and a New Research Institute at Western University
This weeks SpaceQ podcast has two segments. The first is my short interview with Conservative Party MP Erin O’Toole from the AIAC’s town hall followed by a segment on the launch of Western University’s Institute for Earth and Space Exploration.
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