Technology

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.

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.

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.

Mission Control and Spire Global announced the Persistence Mission today at the International Astronautical Congress in Milan, an effort to advance Artificial Intelligence (AI) in space.

Earlier this week at the Space Bound 2024 conference, Reaction Dynamics received $1.5 million in funding for two projects from the Space Space Technology Development Program announcement of opportunity 8. Additionally, the Canadian Space Agency stated Thursday, September 26, the day after the conference ended, that the company had received $776,000 in funding “to support the on-orbit demonstration of its monopropellant propulsion unit, commonly referred to …

Ottawa, ON – Today at the 2024 Space Bound conference, the Honourable Harjit S. Sajjan announced on behalf of the Honourable François-Philippe Champagne, Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, that Canada, through the Canadian Space Agency, would be investing $15 million for 22 projects from 16 organizations.

The BRITE (BRIght Target Explorer) Constellation Mission team is the recipient of the 2024 Alouette Award which was presented at the recent gala dinner of the Canadian Aeronautics and Space Institute ASTRO 2024 conference.

The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) issued a Call for Ideas (CFI) on August 29, 2024 related to science and technology small payloads for space missions.

Carré Technologies Inc., also known as Hexoskin, announced August 27, 2024 that it had raised $4.2M USD ($5.6M CAD) to “invest in growth, digital biomarkers research, and new AI-based digital diagnostics solutions.”

On January 8, 2024 the Astrobotic Mission One for the Peregrine spacecraft flawlessly launched atop a United Launch Alliance new Vulcan rocket but unfortunately shortly after launch and after the spacecraft reported in without any issues, an anomaly occurred which doomed the mission. The root cause has now been identified.