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Maxar Technologies announced last Friday that MDA, its Canadian division, had won a contract from the Government to provide 10 flight-ready Search and Rescue/Global Positioning System (SAR/GPS) repeaters.

NASA revealed in teleconference with media last night that it had formally named its return to the moon program, Artemis. In Greek mythology, Artemis was the twin sister of Apollo. More importantly for the program, NASA sent Congress its budget amendment request for the fiscal year 2020.

SpaceX is scheduled to launch 60 Starlink demonstration satellites on a Falcon 9 this Wednesday without using a traditional dispenser.

Welcome back to the third and final installment of SpaceQ’s “blockchain and space” series. In this installment we look at the some of the companies looking to bring blockchain technology to space.

There was some irony in yesterday’s announcement by Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos that his company was ready to assist NASA in having Americans return to the moon’s surface by 2024.

Telesat has reached another milestone in its efforts to get its proposed Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellation off the ground.

At long last Canada’s trio of new Synthetic Aperture Radar satellites, otherwise known as the RADARSAT Constellation Mission (RCM) has a launch date.

Canada’s robotic suite of tools on the International Space Station (ISS) lead by Dextre removed a failed power switch earlier this morning restoring full power to the US portion of the ISS.

On April 12 Western University held its annual Space Day. One of the more interesting events was a panel discussion on Space Resources: The Next Frontier in Exploration.

Following up on its earlier request for information issued in late January, the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) last Friday issued the expected follow-up request for proposals (RFP) for the Deep Space Exploration Robotics (DSXR) initiative.