The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) today published its departmental plan for the current budget year 2018-19, and while it is slightly higher at $349 million than last years planned spending for this year, it is a continuation of a downward budgetary spiral.
Read More »UrtheCast on the Edge of a Precipice
It’s been rough start to the year for UrtheCast as it tries to move forward with its plan to build its UrtheDaily Constellation. A confluence of events though has the company on the edge of a precipice.
Read More »New Canadian Space Strategy Not Ready – Exclusive
There’s a reason Budget 2018 didn’t include any significant funding or major new programs the space community wanted. The government says “more work needs to be done” on developing a long-term strategy.
Read More »Improved Ship Tracking Key in exactEarth’s Strategic Alternative Search
While exactEarth’s chief executive remains coy about how the “strategic alternative” search is going, he says the Earth observation company picked its timing carefully to look at a possible sale, merger or other activity to maximize shareholder value.
Read More »UrtheCast CEO Wade Larson Steps Down as Company Struggles to Close Financing
UrtheCast today provided and update on their efforts to close the financing needed for their UrtheDaily Constellation. According to the press release, the hold-up is the need to raise the last US$25 million of subordinated capital or equity financing.
Read More »The Space Advisory Boards Emails Stakeholders That it Was “Very Disappointed with Budget 2018”
The Space Advisory Board has sent an email to stakeholders expressing their disappointed with Budget 2018 but says they will continue to “emphasize” the “need for urgent action to reverse the decline in Canada’s space capability” as they engage “with the Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development and his officials.”
Read More »GHGSat to Deploy Greenhouse Gas Monitoring Sensor on an Airplane and Looks to Expand Into India and China
At 15-kilograms, Claire, the size of a microwave oven, zips around the planet at 7-kilometres a second. When flying above the Alberta oil sands, her sensors zero in on a tailing pond and record carbon dioxide and methane emissions. Claire is a demonstration microsatellite operated by GHGSat, the first commercial company to offer greenhouse gas monitoring services using satellite technology.
Read More »Who Will Champion the Canadian Space Program?
Tomorrow Finance Minister Bill Morneau will deliver the Liberal Party’s third budget since coming to power in October 2015. The space community awaits anxiously to see if this is the year a Canadian government steps up and supports the space program to a greater extent than it has.
Read More »The Canadian Space Agency has Underspent its Budget for the Last 17 Years
In the last 17 years the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) has left $802 million in planned spending unspent. In the last three years the CSA has underspent its budget by $201 million. In 2010 the Conservative government began the process of decreasing the CSA's base budget from $300 million to $260 million. The Liberal government has not restored the CSA's annual base budget funding cut. Add these points …
Read More »ICEYE Looks to Disrupt Synthetic Aperture Radar Satellite Market
What if you could put a Synthetic Aperture Radar on small satellite? Would this disrupt the existing market? That’s exactly what Finnish company ICEYE has done and is trying to do.
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