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The Canadian Space Agency has released this video to commemorate Canada’s 50 years in space and shows a timeline of milestones starting with the launch of Canada’s first satellite in 1962, Alouette 1.
Read More »First Tests of Balloon Launches From Timmins Successful
The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) and the French space agency (Centre national d’tudes spatiales or CNES) successfully completed a series of tests for the first trial launch of a stratospheric balloon scheduled for 2013. The tests took place from September 10-13 at the proposed launch site is in Timmins, Ontario.
Read More »CSA Invites Young Canadians To Design Space Experiment For Chris Hadfield To Perform on the ISS
Young Canadians have been invited to design an experiment for Chris Hadfield to perform in space on the International Space Station (ISS). Called the Canadian Science Challenge, it is an effort by the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) to inspire young people to pursue careers in science and technology.
Read More »Canadian Satellites Finally Set For Launch on Indian Rocket
It would appear that several Canadian satellites are finally going to get their launch after years of delays by the Indian Space Research Organization.
Read More »Canadian Scientists Share Their Thoughts as the Curiosity Rover is Set to Land on Mars
Canada is playing an integral role as part of the Mars Science Laboratory mission and the Curiosity Rover which will attempt landing on the Red planet early Monday morning at 1:31 a.m. EDT (10:31 p.m. PDT). On board the rover is an Alpha Particle X-Ray Spectrometer (APXS) Canada contributed. The APXS determines the elemental chemistry of rocks and soils using alpha particles and X-rays.
Read More »Canadian Space Agency Delivers Canada's Contributions to the James Webb Space Telescope
The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) has delivered Canada’s two contributions to the next generation space telescope. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will use Canadian equipment to point the telescope and to detect atmospheres on Earth-like planets orbiting nearby stars.
Read More »MDA Union Wants Canadarm to be Displayed in a Museum
A letter from Roland Kiehne, President of the CAW Local 112 (MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates Brampton) was sent and published by the Postmedia Network across their network of papers including the Ottawa Citizen questioning the decision to display the iconic Canadarm at the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) headquarters rather than a museum.
Read More »CSA Seeking Contributions for UN Long-Term Sustainability of Outer Space Activities (Podcast)
The Canadian Space Agency wants Canadians to provide input that it can then take back to the United Nations (UN) COPUOS Working Group on the LongTerm Sustainability of Outer Space Activities. That was the message Jean-Marc Chouinard outlined at a presentation to the Canadian Space Commerce Association in the first public meeting on this topic.
Read More »Canadarm Heads Home but How Many Canadians Will See It?
A year after the last Shuttle flight an iconic piece of Canadian hardware, the Canadarm from the orbiter Endeavour, has left the Kennedy Space Center and is on its way to the MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA) Brampton facility to be “sanitized and refurbished”. Once that is complete, the Canadarm will go on display at the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) headquarters in St. Hubert, …
Read More »Canadian Space Agency Astronaut On An Expedition To Study Geology in the Arctic
In the past, Apollo astronauts prepared for their trips to the Moon by studying Moon-like geology here on Earth. Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut Jeremy Hansen will train for future international missions to the Moon or Mars as he joins an expedition next week to look for a new impact meteorite crater in the Arctic.
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