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Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen during basic spacewalking skills training in the Johnson Space Center Neutral Buoyancy Lab pool on. April 22, 2011. (Credit NASA)

Canada’s robotic handyman on the International Space Station, Dextre, performed his first repair task on August 28th and 29th. A faulty circuit breaker was in need of being swapped out.

A look at five areas of space exploration where Canadian ingenuity has come to the forefront – Robotics, Rovers, Drilling, Vision Systems and Electric Power – to pave the way for benefits here and now on Earth as well as in the future. (Source: Canadian Space Agency)

MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA) has signed an agreement with the European Space Agency (ESA) for RADARSAT-2 data, this coming shortly after announcing a deal with Russian.

New amendments to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) have been finalized by the US Department of State and will take effect on August 15, 2011 according to a report published by the international law firm Norton Rose and will provide a little relief for Canadian companies.

The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) is holding its annual Educators Space Conference this week for 150 educators from across Canada in what has become a very popular event as evidenced by a waiting list of educators wanting to attend.

This morning at 11:24 a.m. EDT an Atlas V will launch NASA’s Juno spacecraft on a five year voyage to the gas giant Jupiter to learn more about its magnetic fields. SpaceRef’s Randy Attwood was on the CBC to explain the mission.

After two years of holding a joint space mining conference in partnership with the Space Resources Roundtable (SRR), organizer Dale Boucher from the Northern Centre for Advanced Technology Inc. (NORCAT) says space and terrestrial mining are becoming more “joined at the hip” and as such, it’s becoming more feasible to do such work in space.

As the space shuttle program came to an end the final mission of Atlantis to the International Space Station (ISS) delivered the Robotic Refueling Mission (RRM) platform which in November will be used to demonstrate and test tools, technologies, and techniques needed to robotically refuel satellites in space. And while the project is a joint effort between NASA and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) the …

Date: November 2-3, 2011. Location: Ottawa Convention Centre, Ottawa, Ontario. Web Site: http://www.aiac.ca/ About: The Aerospace Industries Associations of Canada is hosting the First Canadian Aerospace Summit in Ottawa.