Even as MDA revenues were lower in the first quarter of the year, the company continues with its restructuring to position itself for future growth with a more diversified product base.
Read More »The Canadian Space Agency Launches Its Own Space Apps Challenge
The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) is getting involved with NASA’s annual Space Apps Challenge with a set of challenges of its own for this weekends event in Ottawa, Toronto and Waterloo.
Read More »What the Space Community Can Expect in Budget 2017
The Liberal Budget 2017 will be presented to Canadians on March 22. For the space community it’s expected that there will be no major projects announced. This comes as no surprise as a new Space Strategy won’t be released until June, and a new Space Advisory Board has yet to be announced. Any new major funding would come in next years budget.
Read More »Business Matters, Even in Space, Especially in Space – Thoughts and Highlights From Ascension 2017
Hey, am I at the right conference? A first-time visitor might be forgiven for feeling a little confused. There was certainly no shortage of bleeding-edge science and engineering – asteroid mining, anyone? – but for much of this three-day event, the air was abuzz with talk of bootstrapping, venture capital funding (or lack thereof), pivoting, culture-building, and various and sundry other facets of the startup …
Read More »The Canadian Space Agency Opens Space to Spoon Exhibit in Moncton
In an effort to educate the public on how satellite data is used by farmers to help the “development of sustainable agriculture practices and what impact they have on the food we eat,” the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) and the Canada Science and Technology Museums Corporation opened up the Space to Spoon exhibit in Moncton today.
Read More »Shorts Cuts: MDA’s Blockbuster Deal, Deep Space Industries Update, GHGSat New Satellites, SmallSat Launch Availability and More
In this weeks Short Cuts we talk about another blockbuster deal by MDA in the acquisition of DigitalGlobe, Deep Space Industries revenue revealed, GHGSat confirms it will acquire two more satellites, the Canadian Space Agency wants your input on technology development and more.
Read More »Kepler Communications Will Launch its First Satellite This November on an Indian Rocket
Kepler Communications announced today it has selected Innovative Space Logistics B.V. (ISL), part of the Innovative Solutions in Space (ISIS) group of the Netherlands, as their launch contractor, and that their first satellite will launch on an Indian Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) rocket this November.
Read More »Short Cuts: Budget 2017, Startup Files, Google Lunar X Prize, Deep Six, RCM, Moonshots and More
In this weeks Short Cuts we talk about the upcoming budget, moonshots, the universe as a hologram, the making of the RADARSAT Satellite Constellation, our new feature Startup Files, our new Culture section and more.
Read More »Short Cuts: exactEarth First Year Results in, UrtheCast Takes the Next Step in Bid to Build Satellite Constellation and More
In this weeks Short Cuts, Canada funds an instrument which will be key in conducting first-ever global survey of Earth’s surface water, exactEarth announces the results of its first year of operations as a public company, UrtheCast signs binding agreement with a government customer to buy two satellites in its OptiSAR constellation and more.
Read More »As SpaceX Returns to Flight There’s a Lot Riding on the Flight for Many Companies
Today at 12:54 p.m. EST, SpaceX should return to flight with the launch of a Falcon 9 on the Iridium 1 mission, if all goes well. There’s a lot riding on this mission, and not just for SpaceX.
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