Short Cuts

Macfab, a manufacturer of components and sub-assemblies, has announced it will support the Launch Canada Challenge.

NorthStar Earth & Space which is looking to build which is looking at building a low Earth orbit (LEO) constellation of 40 satellites has signed a cooperation with the government of Luxembourg.

NASA’s International Space Apps Challenge is back for another year with Montreal and the Kitchener Waterloo region as the first two Canadian cities to announce their participation.

In a press release issued by Kepler Communications this morning the company states it has demonstrated tracking and date transfers of its two satellites in low Earth Orbit using Kymeta’s Electronically Steered Antenna.

The Association of Canadian Universities for Research in Astronomy (ACURA) issued a statement last week on the status of the Thirty Meter Telescope which quickly drew condemnation from Raymond Carlberg, Professor and founding TMT Project Director in Canada.

Aireon late last week announced that it had added the Airports Authority Of India as a participant in its space-based Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) service.

The Canadian Space Agency has awarded ABB Canada a $2 million contract to develop a cryogenic scanning mirror up to TRL5 for the potential SPICA mission.

Euroconsult sent out a press release today promoting its latest research product, its Government Space Programs: Benchmarks, Profiles & Forecasts to 2028. The release includes some teaser data but the full report will cost you €6000.

Self-described space nerd Matt Gurney, a columnist with the National Post, wrote a column yesterday which shows why those people who don’t closely follow space shouldn’t write about it.