Almost 50 years to the day, it was December 7, 1972, that NASA’s Apollo 17 mission launched on the last human mission to the Moon, NASA and its international partners, launched for the first time the rocket that will take humans back to the Moon.
Read More »Telesat Moves to Replace Anik F2 as it Continues Lightspeed Financing Negotiations
Telesat is moving an undisclosed C-band satellite into an orbit to replace Anik F2's geostationary slot "in the coming months," CEO Dan Goldberg told investors in its recent quarterly earnings call, as the company continues to negotiate the financing of its Lightspeed constellation. This page is for subscribers only. Already a subscriber? Log in. Fact-driven space news, columns, business, policy, technology and more. Support independent …
Read More »Canadensys Aerospace Wins Major Contract – Will Build the First Canadian Moon Rover
In the competition between prime contractor MDA and the much smaller and less known Bolton based Canadensys Aerospace, the underdog won.
Read More »Space Flight Laboratory Adapts to Changing Market with Another Flex Production Contract
Toronto’s Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) today announced another contract with Virginia based HawkEye 360 that will see SFL design, assemble, and integrate three microsatellites, and provide technical integration support for another 12 satellites.
Read More »Gemini V – Getting It All Together
In this episode of the Terranauts podcast, the NASA’s Gemini program is moving forward nicely but there’s still one critical issue that needs to be mastered.
Read More »Insight Into the US In-Space Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing National Strategy
In this episode of the Space Economy podcast we a have Future In-Space Operations Q&A from Sept. 14 on the US ISAM National Strategy which was released by the White House in April of this year. ISAM being the acronym for In-Space Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing.
Read More »Investments in Space Exploration to Reach $31B by 2031
Space Consultancy firm Euroconsult has said that there’s a big transition happening in space exploration over the next decade.
Read More »Wherefore Art Thou, Customer? – Part 4 of An Entrepreneurial Space Series
This the fourth installment in the series on An Entrepreneurial Space. If you have not read the previous articles you may want to take a moment to do that before reading this one. So far in this series we have talked about the general features that define entrepreneurial space businesses. We have talked about The Founders of those businesses and the journey they take from …
Read More »GHGSat Launches SPECTRA to Replace PULSE
GHGSat has launched SPECTRA, a free version of its emissions platform. SPECTRA builds on and replaces the free PULSE service it launched in 2020. The move comes ahead of United Nations climate change conference, COP 27.
Read More »First Space Bound Conference Provides a Path Forward for Industry
The first Space Bound conference organized by the fledgling Space Canada industry group was an opportunity for the industry to come together, small and large, and see if they could host a meaningful event.
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