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The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) awarded another four contracts valued at $700,000 under the Flights and Fieldwork for the Advancement of Science and Technology (FAST) program, this time for research related to a possible future moon rover.

When NASA’s Mars 2020 spacecraft launches it will include a helicopter designed to fly only on Mars and will be the first time ever an aircraft will fly on another planetary body.

Cryptocurrency is a controversial but intriguing topic for many people right now. Watching the rise, fall, and potential recovery of Bitcoin and the “altcoins” has certainly been engaging, but many observers may be forgiven for dismissing “crypto” as a fad.

The Canadian Space Agency announced it has awarded 13 contracts to the health and biomedical communities as part of their health technologies initiative for for Deep-Space Exploration.

At approximately 8:05 a.m. EDT April 8 David Saint-Jacques will enter the International Space Station Quest airlock and shortly thereafter begin his first spacewalk, something he’s wanted to do since he first dreamed of going into space.

It was just two months ago that Telesat announced that it had selected unproven, but well funded, Blue Origin as a launch partner for its low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellation. Today, they’ve also selected startup Relativity Space to be a launch partner.

Dedicated space accelerator programs are beginning to pop-up across the globe. The latest one launching a new cohort this year is the Los Angeles based Techstars Starburst Space Accelerator.

David Saint-Jacques will put years of training for a spacewalk to work on Monday April 8 as he and fellow Expedition 59 astronaut Anne McClain will exit the space stations Quest airlock around 8:05 a.m EDT to begin an approximate 7 hour spacewalk.

Yesterday UrtheCast announced its fourth quarter and fiscal year 2018 financial results which saw revenue of $15.6 million in 2018 compared to $40.4 million in 2017.

Honeywell is a global company with over 130,000 employees of which about 3600 are based in Canada. In 2015 the company announced it was acquiring Cambridge, Ontario based COM DEV. It was seen as a smart move at the time.