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After years of delays, two important government satellites, NEOSSat and Sapphire along with two university built nanosatellites are now set to launch on India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) C20 on Wednesday, December 12 from India’s Satish Dhawan Space Center.
Read More »Military Space Drives Israel Space Program for Now
Israel, a country of close to 8 million people with an approximate $80 million space budget, both civil and military, is ranked 9th in the world in the latest edition of Futron’s Space Competitiveness Index. This, despite having less than 1/10th the GDP than four of the countries ahead of it and 1/5th of the other four. Israel is also part of a small exclusive …
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 »DND Wants Arctic Surveillance Network
Yesterday the Ottawa Citizen reported that the Department of National Defence has plans for a $1 billion Arctic Surveillance Satellite Network follow-on program to the yet to be built RADARSAT Constellation Mission.
Read More »Astrium Completes Testing and Delivery of Airborne Satcom System to the Canadian Department of National Defence
Astrium has completed testing a new airborne satcom terminal for the Canadian National Defence (DND).
Read More »Launch of Canada's Satellites Delayed Yet Again Until at Least Q4
Early Thursday morning at 5.47 a.m. Indian local time, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully launched the Indian built RISAT-1 earth observation satellite from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota. During the post-launch briefing ISRO chairman Dr K. Radhakrishnan said that the next Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) launch will be for the French SPOT-6 satellite in August.
Read More »Canadian Satellites Launch on India's PSLV-C20 Delayed Again
Canada’s long awaited launch of the NEOSSat and Sapphire satellites will have to wait a little longer, slipping into a Q3 launch, with an anticipated earliest launch date of mid-July.
Read More »Sapphire – Canada's First Military Satellite
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Read More »The Polar Communications and Weather Mission Can’t Come Soon Enough
The Canadian north’s need for reliable satellites was vividly illustrated in October 2011, when a software error aboard Telesat satellite Anik F2 caused it to malfunction.
Read More »Canadian Military Space at a Crossroads – A Space Quarterly Magazine Preview
The following excerpt is a free preview from the March issue of Space Quarterly magazine. This article is only available in the Canadian edition of the magazine.
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