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The Canadian Space Agency has released the second of a three part series of videos where six of the remaining astronaut candidates share their thoughts on the inspiration that made them dream of becoming an astronaut and to pursue that dream.

Welcome to episode 1 of the SpaceQ podcast. Our guest for the show is Sylvain Laporte, the president of the Canadian Space Agency (CSA).

Yesterday the department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) issued an update to satellite licensing rules and a lifted a moratorium on applications for Non-Geostationary Satellite Orbit (NGSO) systems which had been in place since June 15, 2016.

The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) participated for the first time this year in the NASA Space Apps Challenge with a trio of open data challenges of their own. Of the 31 teams that participated in the Canadian venues of Ottawa, Toronto and Waterloo, five were nominated for the CSA to consider.

The Canadian Space Agency has released the first of a three part series of videos where six of the remaining astronaut candidates share their thoughts on the inspiration that made them dream of becoming an astronaut and to pursue that dream.

Alberta’s first satellite Ex-Alta 1 was launched to the International Space Station (ISS) on April 18 on a cargo resupply spacecraft and on May 26 it was successfully deployed from the ISS.

The Space Advisory Board consultation with stakeholders and the public on a future Canadian Space Strategy have come to an end and now a small subgroup of the Board is focused on writing a report to be submitted to the Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada sometime next week.

The Canadian Space Agency issued the expected Space Technology Development Program Industrial Capability – Building Contributions announcement of opportunity (AO) today. 

The Canadian Space Commerce Association has issued a Call for Papers for the 2017 Canadian SmallSat Symposium. The symposium in meant to be an annual event, and this is the second time the CSCA is organizing it.

Ontario and Quebec have been hit hard by spring flooding and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) is helping by providing emergency responders with satellite imagery from Canada’s own RADARSAT-2 and from other international satellites as part of the International Charter, Space and Major Disasters.