The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) has launched an online educational game called Mission Astronaut designed for students in grade 3-6.
Read More »NorthStar Earth & Space Receives Excellence in Earth Observation Award
At last weeks annual World Satellite Business Week in Paris, NorthStar Earth & Space was one of the recipients of an Excellence in Earth Observation Award by event organizer Novaspace.
Read More »Brigadier-General (Ret’d) G. Michael Adamson Joins Telesat
Brigadier-General (Ret’d) G. Michael Adamson has joined Telesat as the new Senior Director of Defence Strategy and Business Development.
Read More »Spire Global Faces Northstar Legal Action (Updated)
It hasn't been an ideal year for Spire Global, a global provider of space-based data, analytics and space services based in San Francisco and which has an office in Cambridge, Ontario after acquiring exactEarth three years ago. While Spire Global looks to be emerging from a potentially serious creditor issue after accounting issues came to light with its’ space as a service offering, the company …
Read More »BRITE Constellation Mission Team Receives CASI 2024 Alouette Award
The BRITE (BRIght Target Explorer) Constellation Mission team is the recipient of the 2024 Alouette Award which was presented at the recent gala dinner of the Canadian Aeronautics and Space Institute ASTRO 2024 conference.
Read More »MDA Space to use Airbus Sparkwing Solar Arrays for MDA Aurora
A news release issued by Airbus Netherlands states that MDA Space has selected the Sparkwing solar arrays to be used with MDA Aurora’s software-defined satellites.
Read More »Novaspace Report Outlines Changing Tactics as a Result of NGSO Growth
In 2016 Telesat made a bet that their future growth would rest with the idea of building a low Earth orbit satellite constellation which would become known as Lightspeed. According to the latest Novaspace report on Satellite Connectivity & Video Market, the Non-Geostationary Satellite Orbit (NGSO) market, which includes Telesat’s Lightspeed, will see revenues surpass the geostationary orbit market in 2028. The bet Telesat made …
Read More »Telesat Completes Lightspeed Satellite Constellation Funding
It took much longer than expected but today Telesat announced it had completed $2.54 billion funding agreements with the Government of Canada and Quebec meaning the company has all the financing in place for the Lightspeed low Earth Orbit satellite constellation.
Read More »MDA Space to Double Satellite Manufacturing Capacity at Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue Facility
MDA Space announced today that construction has started on an 185,000 square foot expansion of its satellite production facility in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec.
Read More »UN COPUOS Releases 67th Session Report
The UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) has released a report on the Sixty-seventh session which was held June 19–28, 2024.
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