Tag Archives: Podcast

In the first of our three part Podcast Winter Series were featuring the sounds of Mars. 

The recent Canadian Science Policy Conference was an opportunity for those unfamiliar with the current state of Canada’s space policy to learn more.

The first results are in from the OSIRIS-REx mission and they couldn’t please researchers more. Asteroid Bennu is everything they had hoped it would be based on the data obtained so far. It also has provided a few surprises.

The Canadian Space Summit provided SpaceQ an opportunity to sit down with Ryan Anderson of SatCan for an update, to learn about a new E/PO initiative called Space Matters, and to get a quick first reaction to Amazon’s new Ground Station service.

My special guest this week on the SpaceQ podcast is William “Mac” Evans a thirty year veteran of the Canadian space program and a member of the Order of Canada.

In this weeks SpaceQ podcast I speak with freelance journalist Elizabeth Howell about last weeks Canadian Aerospace Summit and on David Saint-Jacques’ upcoming mission to the International Space Station.

Space debris is an issue that’s not going away. In fact, it will get worse before it might get better. For Astroscale, an Asian startup based in Singapore and Japan, that spells business opportunity while doing humanity a favour.

Today’s SpaceQ podcast is a space industry power panel discussion from the recent Canadian Global Affairs Institute Ready for Launch, Preparing Canada for a Future in Space conference held in Ottawa.

In late 2016 the Canadian Space Agency convened a Space Exploration Workshop. It wasn’t the regular workshop convened every few years. This one had a goal of producing a Science and Space Health Priorities plan for the next decade.

During the Fireside Chat with the CBC’s Bob McDonald and the U.S. State Department’s Kenneth Hodgkins, one of the surprising topics discussed was that of Canada becoming an emerging launching state.