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Canada has signed onto a global wideband satellite communications system that will fill the strategic satellite communications requirements of the Canadian Forces over the next 20 years.
Read More »COM DEV Releases Financial Results for 2011
COM DEV International Ltd. has released its fourth quarter and year end financial results. Revenues in 2011 were $203.2 million compared to $220.9 million in 2010 – an 8% decrease.
Read More »NASA Cold Weather Airborne Campaign to Measure Falling Snow Over Canada
NASA scientists are coming to Canada to study snowfall! Beginning Jan. 17, NASA will fly an airborne DC8 science laboratory above Canadian snowstorms to tackle a difficult challenge facing the upcoming Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) satellite mission — measuring snowfall from space.
Read More »MDA Terminates Space Infrastructure Servicing Agreement with Intelsat
Macdonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA) has announced that an agreement that it made with Intelsat S.A. last March to jointly develop a satellite servicing vehicle has ceased to be in effect.
Read More »Saving History, The Canadian Air and Space Museum Teeters
It’s hard to fathom what path of miscommunication forced heritage airplanes, including an Avro Arrow replica, a DHC-2 Beaver and the world’s oldest DHC-1 Chipmunk, outside of the Canadian Air and Space Museum on Sept. 20, 2011.
Read More »Canadian Astronaut Julie Payette, Perspectives from Space
Canadian Space Agency astronaut Julie Payette delivers a lecture entitled Canadian Space Agency Perspectives from Space: Research and Diplomacy at the opening weekend of the Stephen Hawking Centre at the Perimeter Institute September 18, 2011.
Read More »MDA Signs RADARSAT Deal to Provide Data to China
MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA) has signed a $3 million deal with the Chinese company EarthView Image Inc. to provide data for use in areas such as land use management, environmental monitoring, and disaster response.
Read More »German Space Agency DLR Year in Review 2011
The German Space Agency knows as the DLR provides their year in review in this video. it focuses on DLR’s research fields of aeronautics, space, transportation, energy and security.
Read More »Canadian Space Agency Issues 2018 Mars Rover Arm Concept Study Request
The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) issued a request for proposals over the holiday period for a robotic manipulator concept study in preparation for a possible contribution to the joint European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA ExoMars Rover scheduled to launch to Mars in 2018.
Read More »Canadian Space Program Targets the Moon for Human Exploration
Canada is targeting the moon as its next step for human exploration. While this is not a new objective more details are available after NASA hosted the Human Exploration Workshop as part of the Global Exploration Roadmap.
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