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The crisis at Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) in early March appears to have abated, but questions remain about how badly exposed space startups are to potentially unstable financial institutions, including Canadian space firms. 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

Sidus Space today announced it had selected Kitchener-Waterloo based SkyWatch as a partner to distribute commercial data from its satellite constellation through the TerraStream service.

Waterloo-based SkyWatch TerraStream service is expanding into edge computing. They announced the new service, TerraStream Edge, at the recent Amazon Web Services re:Invent conference.

Waterloo-based Skywatch is aiming to be a one-stop shop for Earth observation data. On a path in trying to achieve that goal, they’ve announced a new product, EarthCache-X. 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

As part of yesterday’s announcement of a new Canadian Earth Observation (EO) strategy, the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) announced it had funded 21 companies for its smartEarth initiative.

This past weekend the 10th International Space Apps Challenge was held globally. One of the prominent venues was in Waterloo where organizers included a workshop on hyperspectral data by sponsor Wyvern.

The International Space Apps Challenge created by NASA is set for the first weekend of October globally including in a record nine Canadian cities.

NASA’s Space Apps Challenge engaged over 2,000 students in its first global hackathon in 2012. By last year’s edition, that engagement had grown to 26,165 participants.

SkyWatch is once again in the news. After getting its Series A round of funding closed early in 2020, the company has been relatively quiet. However, over the past few weeks the company has had several announcements including its Series B round of funding. Now comes news of a new Canadian partner in Wyvern for hyperspectral data. This page is for subscribers only. Already a …

On this weeks Space Economy podcast my returning guest is James Slifierz, the CEO of SkyWatch.