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Florida Space Coast based Moon Express, which today is focus of an Industry Day at the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), has signed memorandum’s of understanding (MOU) with seven Canadian organizations and plans on opening an office in the Toronto area.

Kepler Communications, which is planning a constellation of 140 small communication satellites in Low Earth Orbit, announced today it has raised US$16M in Series A funding.

Kleos Space is looking to build a satellite constellation that will collect radio transmissions data that is currently hidden from detection for commercial and government civil and defence clients.

A little over two years since it launched its first satellite to monitor global gases, GHGSat took another step towards launching more satellites by raising US$10M in a Series A2 financing.

Montreal based NorStar Space Data Inc. announced in late August that it had secured $52M in first round financing that included $13M from the government of Quebec.

The Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto today officially launched the CDL-Space stream, a new program for budding space entrepreneurs.

The Harwell Space Cluster in the United Kingdon is host to 80 organizations with 800 employees. One of those companies is Open Cosmos led by its founder Rafael Jorda Siquier.

Is the Canadian venture capitalist landscape light years behind in understanding the space ecosystem in comparison with their U.S. counterparts? Will blockchain technology be as transformative as the Internet has been? These questions are answered in this weeks SpaceQ podcast.

SkyWatch today announced that it had raised $4 million in its seed round of funding to continue development of its Earth Observation platform EarthCache.

Depending on who you talked to at the Canadian Space Society annual Space Summit you might come away thinking optimistically about the future of Canada’s space sector or that we’re on precipice about to fall off the cliff.