The winners of this year’s Space Brain Hack at the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) focused on mental health matters, including giving astronauts “sensory simulation and a virtual escape” from their circumstances while staying in touch with family and friends.
Read More »Hanging By A Thread – Saving the Canadian Space Program
In this episode of the Terranauts podcast we pause our ongoing history of NASA’s early spaceflight program and for the next two episodes focus on an important but largely unknown Canadian historical event, one that could have devastated the space program.
Read More »What Next? The New Space Revolution
This the sixth and final installment of the this series on the New Space Revolution. If you have not read the previous articles you may want to do that as they will provide useful context for this one. Over the course of this series I have talked about how the advent of new space companies based on a new business model that was made possible …
Read More »L3Harris Taps MDA for Another Space Development Agency Tracking Layer Contract
MDA will once again work with L3Harris on the Space Development Agency’s (SDA) Tracking Layer program using its expertise to to build Ka-Band steerable antennas with control electronics.
Read More »Future Lunar Exploration Ideas Presented at the Canadian Lunar Workshop
At the Future of Space Exploration panel at this years Canadian Lunar Workshop, a variety of presenters both from the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) and companies came together to present potential ways that Canada could contribute to the infrastructure of a future lunar colony. Everything from new rovers, lunar greenhouses and nuclear power was discussed. This page is for subscribers only. Already a subscriber? Log …
Read More »Space Canada Releases Defence Recommendations
Space Canada recently released a new policy position paper. Called “Innovating at Home, Defending Our Interests: Canada’s Space Innovators’ Contribution to National Defence,” it’s focused on Canada’s role in the increasingly important space defence domain.
Read More »Space Applications for Mining Technologies Opportunity Issued by the Canadian Space Agency
The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) has issued a new opportunity under its Class Grant and Contribution Program in search of space applications for mining technologies. It does come with a catch.
Read More »Lunar Workshop’s Gateway Utilization Presentations: a Mix of Science, Inspiration, and Lunar Dust
A discussion of the Artemis program, and how the Canadarm3 can help turn the Lunar Gateway into a “flying space laboratory for deep space” preceded a number of presentations. 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 »Cooperation Agreement Between MDA and Thoth to Enable Deep Space Radar Surveillance and Space Domain Awareness
MDA and Thoth Technology have entered into a strategic cooperation agreement that would enable deep space radar surveillance and space domain awareness from what they state would be “Canada’s first ground-based radar capable of monitoring Resident Space Objects in geosynchronous orbit.”
Read More »Lunar Commercialization Prompts a Lively Panel Discussion
A question about “what will a lunar economy look like?” led to a lively discussion about the role of government in potential lunar markets at the commercialization panel at the Canadian Lunar Workshop on June 1st. 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
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