Tag Archives: Satellites

Most Canadian live in a city where the view of the majestic night sky is impacted by light pollution. If they could see the sky in the countryside they would be amazed at the amount of satellites that are flying overhead. A project at Western University is now using meteor tracking cameras to monitor the growing number of satellites in orbit.

Euroconsult is predicting a dramatic increase in the demand for satellites in the coming decade, but that the concentration of that demand in the hands of a few key players could create headwinds.

The Union of Concerned Scientists has released its latest update on the number of active satellites in orbit which now number over 2000, double what was in orbit just six years ago.

There are 13 Canadian commercial satellite constellations in development with 384 planned satellites and five satellites already on-orbit.

November is being dubbed Space Month by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and during the month they plan on voting, with the intention of approving, the spectrum license for Kepler Communications’ satellite constellation.

The Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) of the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies is celebrating 20 years of excellence in the nanosatellite and microsatellite market.

Dr. Robert Zee is the only director the Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) at the University of Toronto Institute of Aerospace has known since its inception in 1998. Over the years SFL has been an innovator in the field of small satellites and without question can be regarded as one of its pioneers.