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The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) has awarded Neptec Design Group Ltd. of Kanata, Ontario a contract valued at $344,852.57 for a concept study of a Compact Active Sensor Technology (CAST).
Read More »Canadian Nanosats CanX-4 and CanX-5 Achieve Notable Firsts
There’s nothing routine about launch and spaceflight. For two Canadian nanosats, CanX-4 and CanX-5, the June 30th launch aboard an Indian rocket proved a challenge. But just over a month into the mission the team of engineers from the University of Toronto Space Flight Laboratory have completed some notable firsts.
Read More »A New Canadian Rocket Company Aims To Go Where None Before Have Succeeded
It might come as a surprise to most Canadians but Canada has never launched a rocket into orbit. Sure we were the third country in the world to build our own satellite, the Alouette, but it was launched by the U.S. on an American rocket. Sure we’ve sent astronauts into space, built the Canadarm, Canadarm2, Dextre, have satellites in orbit and even sent instruments to …
Read More »Canada’s Dextre Becomes the First Robot to Repair Itself in Space
Over the next 7 days, Dextre, the Canadian Space Agency’s (CSA) robotic handyman aboard the International Space Station (ISS), will perform the first robotic self-repair in space.
Read More »Nüvü Caméras Improves on the HNü EMCCD Line of Cameras
Nüvü Caméras has improved the performance of its already popular HNü EMCCD line of cameras.
Read More »Polar Communications and Weather Satellite Project One Step Closer to Reality
The Canadian government today released a Request for Information (RFI) for the Polar Communications and Weather (PCW) Project signalling that is prepared to move forward with a project seen as crucial in ensuring Canada’s sovereignty over the Canadian arctic and would provide reliable 24/7 tactical narrowband and wideband communication, weather imaging and space weather monitoring.
Read More »Neptec Design Group wins contract to develop cameras for ESA's ExoMars Program
Neptec Design Group announced that it has signed a contract with Astrium UK Limited for the design and build of navigation cameras for the ExoMars Rover.
Read More »COM DEV Selected to Design the Next Generation of Satellite Payload for Global Search and Rescue
COM DEV International Ltd. announced that it has won a contract to begin work on the development of an advanced satellite payload that will be used in the next generation of the global search and rescue system known as Cospas-Sarsat.
Read More »MDA Wins Contract to Build Mapping System for Asteroid Sample Return Mission
MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA) has been awarded a contract to build a sophisticated mapping system for a joint Canada-US mission to retrieve samples of an asteroid.
Read More »Robotic Refuelling Mission Runs Into A Software Glitch – updated
Operations to test new robotic satellite refuelling techniques on the International Space Station have run into a small problem.
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