Tag Archives: International Space Station

Ottawa’s Obruta Space Solutions is close to successfully concluding a year-long series of tests of their autonomous orbital docking technology.

There’s been a lot of excitement about the potential possibility of long-term, long-distance space travel in the coming years and decades. Concerns have been raised about the health effects of these kinds of trips, however, especially regarding issues like interplanetary radiation levels and long-term zero gravity. Some new research from McGill University, however, has revealed an unexpected potential issue: the intestinal bacteria in the “gut …

Carleton University is among the entities studying archaeology on the International Space Station (ISS) to see how astronauts adapt their living space for their needs.

The Canadian Space Agency has extended the International Space Station robotics operations support contract for MDA Space for another five years. The contract extension is for the period between 2025 – 2030, and the value of the contract is $250 million.

Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut Joshua Kutryk told SpaceQ that Canadians should look at the space program “with a sense of pride” as the next two astronauts in space, including Kutryk, prepare for their missions.

On Wednesday, November 22, 2023 the Honourable François-Philippe Champagne, Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry announced mission assignments for astronauts Joshua Kutryk and Jenni Gibbons. Here’s what wasn’t said.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to launch tonight at 8:28 pm eastern on a resupply mission to the International Space Station. Included is a batch of Canadian science equipment along with new some new research experiments including NASA’s ILLUMA-T laser communication demonstration.

International Space Station astronauts show temporary effects in their white blood cells during long-duration missions, but more study is required to understand the extent. This page is for subscribers only. Already a subscriber? Log in. Fact-driven space news, columns, business, policy, technology and more. Support independent journalism. SUBSCRIBE TODAY

Today’s episode is dedicated to all of those Terranauts who work in the back hallways and committee meeting rooms to make sure that there is support (and funding) for the various programs that get humans and their inventions a chance to get off the planet.  I have worked with too many of these dedicated and talented individuals to mention them here by name. 

In this episode of the Terranauts podcast we pause our ongoing history of NASA’s early spaceflight program and for the next two episodes focus on an important but largely unknown Canadian historical event, one that could have devastated the space program.