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The badlands of Drumheller, Alberta will once again be the location of Canadian International Rover Competition between August 12-15.
Read More »The Canadian International Rover Competition returns to Drumheller
The Canadian Space Agency hosts Flights and Fieldwork for the Advancement of Science and Technology webinars tomorrow
The Canadian Space Agency will hosts seven webinars starting tomorrow in support of its Flights and Fieldwork for the Advancement of Science and Technology (FAST) program.
Read More »The 2019 Canadian International Rover Competition Will Have 20 Post-Secondary Teams
The not-for-profit Canadian Space Technology Advancement Group is once again organizing the Canadian International Rover Challenge (CIRC).
Read More »Canadensys Wins Mars Sample Fetch Rover Concept Contract
The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) has awarded a $400K contract to Canadensys for a Sample Fetch Rover mission concept study, one element of a possible future international Mars Sample Return mission.
Read More »Canada’s Fledging Rover Program Is Facing A Rocky Future – Space Quarterly Archives
Continuing with our Summer Reading Series of articles or interviews that still have some relevance today, we present Canada’s Fledging Rover Program Is Facing A Rocky Future which outlined the state of rover development in Canada in the fall of 2011. The story was written by Elizabeth Howell and originally published in Space Quarterly Magazine in December 2011. Six years later many of the same players are still …
Read More »Canadian Technology Tested at Upcoming PISCES Field Tests in Hawaii
The lower slopes of Hawaii’s Mauna Kea with its volcanic soil and which resembles the surfaces of the moon and Mars will be the location for upcoming field tests of a variety of technology with representation from NASA, the German and Canadian Space Agency and Canadian organizations.
Read More »Rover Technologies Outlined in Canadian Space Agency Contracts
A lunar or Martian rover appears to be among the priorities that will eventually be outlined in Canada’s Long-Term Space Plan, a planning tool the Canadian Space Agency says it has been working to complete during the past year. That information emerged from a series of CSA tenders – collectively worth at least $9.75 million – issued these past few weeks on Merx, a Canadian …
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