Maxar recently held its 2018 investor days. The purpose? Sell institutional investors on why the company now known as Maxar Technologies, formed from MDA, SSL, Digitalglobe and Radiant, is a company going places.  The message, institutional investors should have a larger Maxar position in their portfolios and they should market the company to their clients.  

There’s a reason Budget 2018 didn’t include any significant funding or major new programs the space community wanted. The government says “more work needs to be done” on developing a long-term strategy. 

The Dragonfly mission to Saturn’s moon Titan is one of two mission concept finalists selected by NASA as part of their New Frontiers program. Professor Catherine Neish of Western’s Department of Earth Science and a core member of the Centre for Planetary Science and Exploration is a co-investigator, the lone Canadian on the mission.

Deep Space Industries is a five year old privately held company spacecraft technology with a long term plan of mining asteroids that has adapted its business for the long game.

President Trump thinks the U.S. needs a Space Force. Whether he’s serious or not, it makes news.

Maritime Launch Services (MLS) is set to submit its environmental assessment report likely by the end of the month for review by the government of Nova Scotia for its spaceport.

UrtheCast today provided and update on their efforts to close the financing needed for their UrtheDaily Constellation. According to the press release, the hold-up is the need to raise the last US$25 million of subordinated capital or equity financing.

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.

The Space Advisory Board has sent an email to stakeholders expressing their disappointed with Budget 2018 but says they will continue to “emphasize” the “need for urgent action to reverse the decline in Canada’s space capability” as they engage “with the Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development and his officials.”

It was meant to be an armchair discussion with Bill Nye “The Science Guy” on budget investments in Canadian innovation, particularly science. However, while mainstream media picked up on the political query related to the Kinder Morgan pipeline program at the end of the session, what they didn’t pick up on was the not-so-subtle poke Nye made about the space program.