The RADARSAT Constellation Mission is less than a week away from its scheduled launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Air Force base in California.
Read More »How Will the RADARSAT Constellation Mission Benefit Canadians?
The RADARSAT Constellation Mission is tentatively scheduled to launch on Tuesday, June 11. What will the three satellites mean to the lives of everyday Canadians?
Read More »RADARSAT Constellation Mission Launch and Deployment Animation
Canada’s trio of next-generation of Earth observation satellites known as the RADARSAT Constellation Mission is scheduled to launch in mid-June. What will the launch look like? How will the satellites be deployed?
Read More »High Level Area Wildfire Threatens Mackenzie Valley Fibre Link to Inuvik Ground Stations
The Mackenzie Valley Fibre Link that provides a vital high-speed communication to Inuvik and which went operational a year ago, is now threatened at its southern terminus in High Level, Alberta by the Chuckegg Creek wildfire.
Read More »The Canadian Space Agency Awards $15 Million for Technology R&D to 25 Companies
The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) has awarded just over $15 million in funding to 25 companies for its Space Technology Development Program (STDP).
Read More »Transporting the RADARSAT Constellation Mission to the Launch Site is Not as Easy as You Might Think
The RADARSAT Constellation Mission (RCM) satellites were packed up and transported from Montreal to Palo Alto, California in preparation for their launch. They travelled the 4,800 km journey by way of a custom modified trailer owned by International Machine Transport (IMT), specialists in transporting these kinds of cargo.
Read More »Airbus and Thales Alenia Space-Maxar Consortium Complete Milestones in Bid for Telesat Contract
Telesat has reached another milestone in its efforts to get its proposed Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellation off the ground.
Read More »RADARSAT Constellation Mission Launch Date Set
At long last Canada’s trio of new Synthetic Aperture Radar satellites, otherwise known as the RADARSAT Constellation Mission (RCM) has a launch date.
Read More »Canadian Space Agency 2019-20 Planned Spending Set at $329 Million
The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) released its 2019-20 Departmental Plan (DP) today which outlines spending of $329M, about $18M more than was forecasted last year but continues an expected downward trend. 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
Read More »Launch Startup Relativity Space Snags Telesat as a Customer
It was just two months ago that Telesat announced that it had selected unproven, but well funded, Blue Origin as a launch partner for its low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellation. Today, they’ve also selected startup Relativity Space to be a launch partner.
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