Tag Archives: Space Situational Awareness

Montreal’s NorthStar Earth & Space, a commercial space-based situational awareness (SSA) startup, has announced who their launch provider will be for their first three satellites. The three 16U microsatellites are scheduled for launch in mid-2023 and will reach low Earth orbit with launch services provider Virgin Orbit. If all goes well, Virgin Orbit could be well placed to launch an additional 21 NorthStar satellites.

NorthStar Earth & Space continues to add to its European portfolio of partnerships, this time signing a distribution and partnership agreement at the World Satellite Business Week with Telespazio, the joint venture between Leonardo and Thales.

The Department of National Defence (DND), through Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC), is soliciting opinions on commercial Space Situational Awareness observations. 

NorthStar Earth and Space has been quiet for some time and now we know why. The Montreal based company which has so far raised $86 million, announced today it had contracted Thales Alenia Space to build the first three satellites that will make up an initial constellation of 12 satellites dedicated to space situational awareness (SSA). The commercial constellation will be the first of its …

As Canada’s National Department of Defence (DND) implements part of its Strong, Secure, and Engaged defence policy, space-based Space Situational Awareness is a key component.

Canada’s NEOSSat satellite is playing a role in the space situational awareness Phantom Echoes experiment and recently captured imagery of the North Grumman Mission Extension Vehicle-1 spacecraft approaching Intelsat 901 in GEO.

In December of 2019 the Department of National Defence (DND) put a call for engineering and costing studies related to a space-based surveillance system.

Earlier this year the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) held a Space Security Conference that included several Canadian voices and was co-organized by The Simons Foundation Canada.

The Department of National Defence (DND) has issued a request for information (RFI) for possible Ground Based Optical solutions for the Surveillance of Space 2 project.

NorthStar Earth & Space which is looking to build which is looking at building a low Earth orbit (LEO) constellation of 40 satellites has signed a cooperation with the government of Luxembourg.