Tag Archives: Canadian Satellite Constellations

You can add the Earth Observation (EO) community to the list of space communities that need a new long term plan.

Helios Wire and exactEarth will each have a small satellite launched on the upcoming SpaceX Falcon 9 launch of the Spaceflight SSO-A rideshare mission scheduled for no earlier than Nov. 27.

Seeing growth potential in the U.S., and overlooking problems with part of Maxar’s business landscape, shareholders voted overwhelmingly in favour of the U.S. domestication plan.

OTTAWA – Canadian aerospace companies require a government-led industrial strategy to grow their services nationally and internationally, executives warned at a panel today at the Canadian Aerospace Summit of the Aerospace Industries Association of Canada (AIAC).

In our special series, What’s in Canada’s Long Term Space Plans, we presented a chronological history of the key documents that supported or were considered Long Term Space Plans. In this the final story in the series we look at the failure in leadership that’s existed for 15 years.

There are 13 Canadian commercial satellite constellations in development with 384 planned satellites and five satellites already on-orbit.

Today’s SpaceQ podcast is a space industry power panel discussion from the recent Canadian Global Affairs Institute Ready for Launch, Preparing Canada for a Future in Space conference held in Ottawa.

MDA’s plan to reimagine itself as a U.S. based company has hit a big pothole along its path. This is primarily due to the significant downturn in sales of larger satellites, communication satellites destined for geosynchronous orbit (GEO), which is hitting its SSL unit hard.

November is being dubbed Space Month by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and during the month they plan on voting, with the intention of approving, the spectrum license for Kepler Communications’ satellite constellation.

Mike Greenley and the new MDA are no longer content to quietly roam the halls of power in Ottawa to make their point. This new MDA is in your face, public, and fighting for its business and for a supply chain of smaller companies. This page is for subscribers only. Already a subscriber? Log in. Fact-driven space news, columns, business, policy, technology and more. Support …