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Canadarm2 Plays a Role in Investigating Mystery Leak of Two Russian Spacecraft Attached to the ISS

Image of hole on the Soyuz 22. Credit: Roscosmos.

Canada is playing a small but critical role in understanding a problem on the International Space Station (ISS). The Canadarm2 has been used to take photos of the mysterious leaks on the Soyuz 22 and Progress 82 spacecraft, helping Roscosmos and others to understand and explain what happened. This page is for subscribers only. Already a subscriber? Log in. Fact-driven space news, columns, business, policy, …

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Mission Control Space Services Forms Orbital Autonomy Lab

Mission Control Space Services

Mission Control Space Services is pushing hard into the artificial intelligence (AI) space. The Ottawa-based mission control software company, which has an emphasis on education as well, announced the formation of an Orbital Autonomy Lab on Wednesday (Feb. 15). This page is for subscribers only. Already a subscriber? Log in. Fact-driven space news, columns, business, policy, technology and more. Support independent journalism. SUBSCRIBE TODAY

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First Carbon Dioxide Commercial Satellite by GHGSat set to Launch this Year

GHGSat satellites

Montreal-based GHGSat plans to launch the world's commercial satellite focused on carbon dioxide (CO2) monitoring later this year; launch provider and timing will be announced in the coming months. This page is for subscribers only. Already a subscriber? Log in. Fact-driven space news, columns, business, policy, technology and more. Support independent journalism. SUBSCRIBE TODAY

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Lunar Power Company STELLS Emerges From Stealth

STELLS Mobile Power Rover

After a year and a half of quiet research and development, Toronto-based STELLS has just emerged from stealth. They’re promising to resolve a potentially major problem with operations on the Moon in the years ahead: powering equipment (especially rovers) in the shadow of lunar craters.

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A Q&A With the Canadian Robotics Council About its Conference and Canada’s Future

"No matter how often we perform this manoeuvre, capturing a freely drifting spaceship with the @Space_Station robotic arm in full manual mode always gets an astronaut's pulse up." Astronaut Alexander Gerst on capturing the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft with the Canadarm2

Canada's robotics community has a new voice. The Canadian Robotics Council is a partnership between industry, academia and government that is meant to showcase robotics' overall value in the economy along with high-growth areas like artificial intelligence and machine learning – and yes, space is very much included. Their first symposium will be held Sept. 22 in Ottawa. This page is for subscribers only. Already …

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