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.
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.
Read More »Podcast Episode 26: Michelle Mendes on Small Satellites and the Canadian SmallSat Symposium
My guest this week on the SpaceQ podcast is Michelle Mendes, the Executive Director and President of the Canadian Space Commerce Association.
Read More »Toronto’s Space Flight Laboratory is a Pioneer in the Evolution of Small Satellites
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.
Read More »Podcast Episode 9: Moon vs Mars and Infrastructure and Imagination Leadership
In this podcast episode I welcome back Wayne Ellis, a space and defence consultant with AppSpace Solutions of Winnipeg, and a past president of the Canadian Space Society.
Read More »Wanted: Companies Willing to Support the Canadian CubeSat Project
The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) has released a Request for Information (RFI) tender aimed at companies who are interested in supporting the Canadian CubeSat Project (CCP).
Read More »Vector Space Systems – Small Rockets, Small Satellites and Possibly a Big Payday
In 2016 Jim Cantrell and group of veteran space professionals started Vector Space Systems. Their goal? Nothing less than than building a small satellite launch company capable of launching upwards of 100 small satellites a year from at least three spaceports.
Read More »The Government Issues Revised Satellite Licensing Rules and Lifts Moratorium on Applications for Non-Geostationary Satellite Orbit Systems
Yesterday the department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) issued an update to satellite licensing rules and a lifted a moratorium on applications for Non-Geostationary Satellite Orbit (NGSO) systems which had been in place since June 15, 2016.
Read More »Alberta’s First Satellite Deployed from the International Space Station and Systems Startup Successful
Alberta’s first satellite Ex-Alta 1 was launched to the International Space Station (ISS) on April 18 on a cargo resupply spacecraft and on May 26 it was successfully deployed from the ISS.
Read More »The Canadian SmallSat Symposium Issues Call for Papers
The Canadian Space Commerce Association has issued a Call for Papers for the 2017 Canadian SmallSat Symposium. The symposium in meant to be an annual event, and this is the second time the CSCA is organizing it.
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