News

The Asia Policy journal October 2024 issue is available and it includes a roundtable discussion titled Asia’s Space Ambitions: Driving the Next Chapter in Global Space Competition. Within this 90 page roundtable is a contribution by Brian Gallant and Jordan Miller on Canada.

Telesat announced on Monday at the APEX expo in Long Beach, California that they and Airbus would be working together on providing high speed internet connectivity to airline passengers.

The proposed Canadian led Cosmological Advanced Survey Telescope for Optical and uv Research, commonly referred to by its acronym CASTOR, while not in limbo, is in need of some timely attention by decision makers in government. This according to a recent update from the Canadian Astronomical Society (CASCA).

The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) is providing additional funding in the amount of $500,000 each to Canadensys Aerospace and MDA Space for the Lunar Surface Exploration Initiative.

Telesat has awarded a contract to Intellian to supply 127 gateway antenna systems for use with Telesat's Lightspeed low Earth orbit (LEO) constellation.

Ottawa’s Obruta Space Solutions is close to successfully concluding a year-long series of tests of their autonomous orbital docking technology.

The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) has awarded four companies $150,000 each in the second round for the Connected Care Medical Module (C2M2) initiative of the Health Beyond program.

During this years International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Milan, the Canadian Space Agency extended their memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Swedish National Space Agency and looked at a new collaboration with the Italian Space Agency.

Alberta based Wyvern, who provide commercial hyperspectral data, announced today that they had raised USD $6M (CAD $8.2M) which will help them penetrate deeper into the U.S. market.

The European Space Agency (ESA) has selected Canada’s Kepler Communications as prime contractor on the ESA’s High Throughput Optical Network (HydRON) development program.