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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.
Read More »NASA Image: Wildfires in Central Canada
Wildfires continue to be a problem in Canada. Currently in the central region, including the Northern Territories, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, numerous fires were spotted by the Aqua satellite on this image captured on August 12, 2013.
Read More »CSA Releases Satellite Image of Lac-Mégantic Disaster Area
The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) has releases a high-resolution image of the Lac-Mégantic train wreck that was obtained from CNES, the French space agency. The image taken on July 13th is from the Pléiades satellite.
Read More »SpaceX Falcon 9 to Launch RADARSAT Constellation Mission in 2018
MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA) has contracted SpaceX to launch Canada’s RADARSAT Constellation Mission (RCM), which consists of three satellites, on a Falcon 9 rocket sometime in 2018.
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