Four companies have been awarded contracts by the Department of National Defence (DND) for the All Domain Situational Awareness (ADSA) Science & Technology (S&T) program. One of those companies, C-CORE, will use Synthetic Aperture Radar from a High Elevation Long Endurance (HALE) Unmanned Air System (UAS).
Read More »Seeing the Personal Side of Science, With the First Ever Story Collider in Canada
Funny, emotional, and intimate stories through Story Collider were a new addition to this year’s Science Literacy Week events.
Read More »SNC Dream Chaser Spacecraft Could Be Available to Canadians Under New Agreement
The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) and Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) today signed a memorandum of understanding that could see the Dream Chaser being used by Canadian researchers and businesses.
Read More »Podcast Episode 15: Matt Bamsey Talks Safe Food Production in Space
My guest today is Matt Bamsey a Research Associate at the DLR, the German Space Agency. Matt is Canadian and was one of the 17 finalists in the Canadian Space Agency astronaut recruitment campaign. Before joining the DLR in 2013, Matt had been a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Florida and the University of Guelph where he received his PhD in Environmental Biology. …
Read More »Canada Has a New Chief Science Advisor and It’s Dr. Mona Nemer
Canada has a new Chief Science Officer and it’s Dr. Mona Nemer who until taking this position was a Professor and Vice-President, Research, at the University of Ottawa and Director of the Molecular Genetics and Cardiac Regeneration Laboratory.
Read More »Canada’s New Groundbreaking CHIME Radio Telescope Set to Shed Light on Cosmology’s Biggest Mysteries
Sometimes, ‘it takes a whole village to raise a child’, in this case, it takes most of Canada’s radio astronomer community to build a telescope.
Read More »The Canadian Space Agency Looks to Measure the Socioeconomic Impact of Space Weather
The Canadian Space Agency today released a request for proposals (RFP) to study the socioeconomic impacts of space weather on Canada’s infrastructure.
Read More »ESA Releases Banff Swarm and Cryosat Conference Wrap-up Video
Earlier this year Canada hosted the European Space Agency (ESA) 2017 ESA Earth Explorer science meetings. They included the Fourth Swarm Science Meeting & Geodetic Missions Workshop and the North American Cryosat Science Meeting for the Swarm and Cryosat missions which Canada is a part of.
Read More »The Canadian Space Agency Issues RFP for Space Astronomy LiteBIRD Satellite Mission
The Canadian Space Agency has issued a request for proposals (RFP) for a Mission Contribution Study for the Japanese led LiteBIRD satellite as part of its ongoing effort to support the space astronomy communities decadal plan of 2010, since revised in 2016.
Read More »Help Young Scientists, Provide More Funding, Improve Oversight Says Expert Panel as Part of Canada’s Fundamental Science Review
An independent expert panel tasked last June to review federal funding for fundamental science has released its final report, and it recommends increased funding for Canadian research, improving oversight, and steps to help young scientists.
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