Sitting in a side hangar of the Canada Aviation and Space Museum (CASM) is a special preservation project: an airplane that is the direct ancestor of the forthcoming RADARSAT Constellation Mission (RCM) that will launch in the coming months, upgrading RADARSAT-2’s capability with a trio of satellites.
Read More »Canada is Going to the Moon
Today Prime Minister Justin Trudeau confirmed what many had hoped for by committing Canada to participate in the NASA led effort to return to the moon. Canada will contribute a smart robotic system to the NASA's Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway (LOP-G) program. The smart robotic system includes a next-generation robotic arm, which is already being called the Canadarm3, other unnamed equipment, and specialized tools to be …
Read More »Small Satellite Technology Being Developed at Ottawa Incubator ‘Greenhouse’
Honeywell Aerospace recently opened a local incubator, dubbed the “Greenhouse”, to reduce the cost and time to create technologies for small satellites, the company said Tuesday (Feb. 26) at an announcement at an office on Elgin Street.
Read More »InvestmentSpace 2019 Hits Enough Right Notes to be a Success
If the goals of the first InvestmentSpace was to attract investors, startups and to start a dialogue, then the event was a success.
Read More »DND Project Grey Jay will use the SFL Defiant Platform and Other new Details
The Department of National Defence’s Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC) has provided SpaceQ with additional details on Project Grey Jay.
Read More »Maritime Launch Services to Deliver NSE Focus Report by the Third Week of March
Maritime Launch Services (MLS), the Halifax based startup wanting to build a spaceport in Nova Scotia, plans on submitting its mandated Nova Scotia Environment Focus Report by the third week of March SpaceQ has learned.
Read More »As MDA Turns 50 we Talk with Group President Mike Greenley
MDA has been in business for 50 years now, which is no small achievement, and it’s not easy to keep a company growing for a long period of time.
Read More »Israel Set to Make History with Moon Mission, it Could Have Been Canada
On Thursday evening a SpaceX rocket is set to launch an Indonesian communications satellite. Piggybacking on the ride as a secondary payload is Israel’s lunar lander Beresheet.
Read More »Canadian ANA Avatar XPRIZE Session Leads to Discussion of Canadian Space-Based Robotics
Canadian Robotics draw a devoted audience. Even though Toronto’s schools, roads, highways and subways were shut down due to intense blizzard conditions on January 28th, a varied crowd of technological experts, enthusiasts, and students still came together at Ryerson University’s DMZ collaboration space.
Read More »Video: What is a CubeSat?
It all started in the late 1990’s. A group of researchers came up with the idea of creating a new small satellite platform, called a CubeSat, to help students develop the skills to build satellites.
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