The Canadian government today released a Request for Information (RFI) for the Polar Communications and Weather (PCW) Project signalling that is prepared to move forward with a project seen as crucial in ensuring Canada’s sovereignty over the Canadian arctic and would provide reliable 24/7 tactical narrowband and wideband communication, weather imaging and space weather monitoring.
Read More »Canada's Washington Space Affairs Office
The space sector has come a long way in the fifty-plus years since Sputnik and Explorer and Alouette.
Read More »2013 Canadian Aerospace Summit Starts Tomorrow
Tomorrow over 600 attendees will gather in Ottawa for the annual Canadian Aerospace Summit hosted by the Aerospace Industries Association of Canada (AIAC). This years theme is “Engage in Change”.
Read More »COM DEV Stock Upgraded on New Order
COM DEV (TSE:CDV) which on October 10th announced its largest commercial contract of $65 million ever, saw its stock target price boosted to $5.00 from $4.75 the next day by Canaccord Genuity. The renewed confidence in the company comes as analysts believe the company has rebounded from the lows of 2011.
Read More »Greater Toronto Group Begins Crowdfunding Campaign For a Mississauga Planetarium
The Earthshine Astronomy and Space Science Organization plans to build and operate a state-of-the-art Planetarium and Space Discovery Centre to in Mississauga to serve the western Greater Toronto Area (GTA).
Read More »Canada's Space Economy to be Featured at the Canadian Space Summit
This years Canadian Space Summit by the Canadian Space Society is once again being held in Ottawa between November 12-15 with the theme Canada’s Space Economy.
Read More »World Space Week Toronto Event
The Space Tourism Society has put together a special event for World Space Week taht includes talk from three prominent Canadian space experts.
Read More »Canadian Space Pioneer Dr. Philip Lapp Passes Away
Dr. Philip Lapp one of Canada’s earliest and influential space pioneers has passed away at the age of 85 after a long illness.
Read More »After Years in Storage CASSIOPE Satellite Set for Launch (Updated)
I bet you didn’t know that if you drove onto the West Island of Montreal via the Trans-Canada Highway, that in a nondescript building at MDA’s Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue office, on the north side of the highway, was a $140 million satellite securely stored and awaiting its mission the last few years.
Read More »A New Study Links Prehistoric Climate Shift with Cosmic Impact in Quebec
For the first time, a dramatic climate shift that has long fascinated scientists has been linked to the impact in Quebec of an asteroid or comet, Dartmouth researchers and their colleagues report in a new study funded by the National Science Foundation.
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