Tag Archives: Canadian Space Agency

They blew it. Plain and simple. The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) press conference yesterday was billed by the CSA as a funding announcement and the event included two senior cabinet ministers. So you would think the announcement would be more substantive. Unfortunately the hype didn’t meet expectations.  

In the recently announced budget the government had announced $80.9 million in new funding for the Canadian Space Agency over five years. We now know a little more about the projects the funds will go to.

The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) is getting involved with NASA’s annual Space Apps Challenge with a set of challenges of its own for this weekends event in Ottawa, Toronto and Waterloo.

The Canadian Space Commerce Association along with the Aerospace Industries Association of Canada which organized the Space 2.0 Roundtable at the Canadian Space Agency headquarters in February, has released a report from the event and one of the presentations.

Innovation, Science and Economic Development has posted a new website for the new Space Advisory Board (SAB). It includes the consultation paper we previously published and the cities and dates the SAB will be visiting over the course of the next month. They are listed below. 

Innovation, Science and Economic Development Minister Bains introduced the final 17 astronaut candidates today in Toronto. They include ten members of Canada’s military and seven civilians.

A new Senate report by the Standing Committee National Security and Defence, Military underfunded: The walk must match the talk, commissioned in 2016 as part of the Defence Policy Review concludes that Canada’s space assets need to be declared critical to the nations’ infrastructure and protected. The conclusion comes as no surprise to those who work in the space community. It’s now up to Liberal government to …

On Tuesday the government announced the new Space Advisory Board and sent out invitations to selected people from the space community to attend the first Space Advisory Board Ottawa Roundtable on Canada’s Future in Space this Friday afternoon. SpaceQ sources who were contacted to attend were none too pleased about the short notice on such an important topic.

The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) this morning issued its latest request for proposal (RFP), this time for Development of Enabling Space Technologies. This latest RFP is is part of the Space Technology Development Program geared towards developing priority technologies.

The Liberal government this evening announced the ten people selected to serve on Canada’s latest edition of a Space Advisory Board. The new Board has already met once, last Thursday, and is getting ready to start a cross-Canada consultation process which start this Friday in Ottawa.