The latest SpaceQ podcast is out and this week we’re doing something a little different. My guest is Wayne Ellis, a space and defence consultant with AppSpace Solutions of Winnipeg who was also a past president of the Canadian Space Society.
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My guest for episode 3 is Jessica West who is the Project Manager for the annual Space Security Index published by Project Ploughshares.
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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 …
Read More »Defence Minister Harjit S. Sajjan announced today that National Defence had awarded a contract to MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd (MDA) to deliver the Polar Epsilon 2 system. The delayed project first issued a Request for Information in late 2013.
Read More »The Department of National Defence just announced that Defence Minister Harjit S. Sajjan will make an announcement tomorrow at 2:30 p.m. EDT (11:30 a.m. PDT) at MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. headquarters in Richmond, BC.
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This is part 2 of An Overview of Canadian Military Space in 2014. Part 1 is available here.
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Arguably 2014 was a watershed year in the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) military space program. Up until this year the military space program was focused on delivering capability that could be used by the Navy, Army and Air Force as joint force enablers but rarely were those capabilities tightly integrated into operations, nor were they exploited to their maximum advantage. To do so requires a …
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With the two year anniversary of its launch coming up, the small Near-Earth Object Surveillance Satellite (NEOSSat) is still only partially achieving its mission goals. The updated mission news is a mix of good and bad.
Read More »In a rare news release from the the Department of National Defence (DND) with respect to Canada’s military activities in space, the DND announced yesterday that it had signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Australia, the United States and United Kingdom to formalize the Combined Space Operations Initiative.
Read More »It’s been a long wait but after completing extensive testing Canada’s first dedicated military satellite, Sapphire, is ready for service.
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