The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) announced this week that it had awarded $2.2 million for three new health studies to be conducted on the International Space Station.

We’ve got something special for you this week on the Terranauts podcast, a live recording of the Gala dinner speech at the recent Canadian Space Summit.

Ken Podwalski, the program manager for the Lunar Gateway at the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) gave his potato salad talk at last weeks Canadian Space Summit. It surprisingly made sense, though Ken’s optimism might not be shared by all.

The annual Canadian Space Summit was an opportunity for stakeholders to get together to learn the latest from their colleagues and in the case of this years conference, the public unveiling of a new government conceived SatCom consortium.

Issues raised several years ago were again the focus during a consultation with stakeholders by Global Affairs Canada (GAC) and the Canadian Space Agency.

Astrophysicist Elizabeth Tasker was a recent guest at the Perimeter Institute public lecture series where she took the audience on an entertaining tour of some alien worlds.

This Thursday evening into Friday morning the annual Alpha Monocerotid meteor shower will be visible, but experts can’t agree on whether it will be spectacular or not.

The 2019 Space Security Index is now available and the report contains positive developments, but clearly shows more work needs to be done.

Following on the recent announcement of a successful demonstration of a high-bandwidth satellite connection in the high arctic, Kepler Communications is now partnering with Cobham SATCOM for what they’re calling “User Terminal-as-a-Service (UTaaS).”

This week on the Terranauts podcast we have a very special guest, Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield.