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Bolton, Ontario’s Canadensys Aerospace has received a contract with the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) to work on lunar agriculture. According to the announcement, they will specifically be assisting with design work on subsystems for a “Ground Test Demonstrator” (GTD) of a Lunar Greenhouse. This page is for subscribers only. Already a subscriber? Log in. Fact-driven space news, columns, business, policy, technology and more. Support independent journalism. …

Technology from Ontario’s Canadensys Aerospace was recently on the first U.S. Moon lander to make a soft touchdown in more than 50 years, since the Apollo 17 human landing mission of 1972.

A SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocketed into the dark sky at 1:05 a.m. EST from Launch Complex 39A in Florida with the Intuitive Machines IM-1 spacecraft and began its week long journey to the Moon. Canadian technology from Canadensys Aerospace and MDA are onboard.

The upcoming second launch of a NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) mission to the Moon will include imagers from Canadensys Aerospace for the International Lunar Observatory Association and Intuitive Machines. The latter was partially funded by the Canadian Space Agency through the Lunar Exploration Accelerator Program.

The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) announced Wednesday, December 13th that it was providing $2.9 million to four companies for six projects for sustainable lunar exploration.

Canadensys Aerospace has hired veteran Gilles Leclerc as Director, Government & International Affairs a year removed from retiring after a long career at the Canadian Space Agency.

Canadensys Aerospace has a lot of lunar projects in the works. The company recently announced it has delivered a multi-spectral microscope to the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), for the Lunar Vertex Mission. Vertex is funded under NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program that is aiming to deliver payloads to the moon to support the Artemis human missions.

At the Future of Space Exploration panel at this years Canadian Lunar Workshop, a variety of presenters both from the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) and companies came together to present potential ways that Canada could contribute to the infrastructure of a future lunar colony. Everything from new rovers, lunar greenhouses and nuclear power was discussed.  This page is for subscribers only. Already a subscriber? Log …

After an initial review of the data from the HAKUTO-R Mission 1 lunar lander, ispace stated that as the lander was on final approach the “descent speed rapidly increased” after “the estimated remaining propellant reached at the lower threshold.” This resulted in a “hard landing,” essentially a crash landing.

If all goes well, the ispace Japanese lander with Canadian technology onboard will land on the Moon on April 25 sometime after the landing sequence starts at 11:40 am ET (15:40 UTC).