Alberta-based Eagle Flight Network (EFN) and Newfoundland-based C-CORE have announced that they will be working together to build a new ground station in Canada. They have “entered into a MOU (memorandum of understanding) to advance both company’s interests in the satellite ground station services business,” and will “work together to build a robust industry-led satellite ground segment in Canada.”
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The Mackenzie Valley Fibre Link that provides a vital high-speed communication to Inuvik and which went operational a year ago, is now threatened at its southern terminus in High Level, Alberta by the Chuckegg Creek wildfire.
Read More »Global Affairs Canada Issues Full Operating License to Planet Labs
It was years in the making, but on March 29 Global Affairs Canada issued Planet Labs a full operating license for their Inuvik based ground station.
Read More »Global Affairs Canada Approves Provisional License for Planet Ground Station in Inuvik
One year after U.S. based Planet Labs Inc. threatened to pull its ground station assets out of Inuvik, and nearly three years after submitting a license request to operate in Canada’s high Arctic, the company has a Provisional License to operate its ground station.
Read More »Natural Resources Canada in Apparent Conflict of Interest Over Ground Station Licensing
While innovation is seemingly in every funding press release issued by the government, there’s little innovation happening in Ottawa’s bureaucracy, and that’s hampering business to the point that foreign investment dollars in Canada’s space sector might head for more responsive countries. Throw in an apparent government conflict of interest, and you’ve got a Made in Ottawa bureaucratic migraine for the government.
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