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Telesat and Avanti Communications announced Wednesday that they had signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for the Lightspeed low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellation. It is the second MOU Telesat has signed this year for Lightspeed.

Toronto’s Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) and the Norwegian Space Agency (NOSA) say that they have successfully transferred data from a small CubeSat to a ground station using a laser-based optical link. This is a first for Dutch-built laser communications devices, and one of the few times that it’s been done on a small satellite and which posed a challenge with the various payloads.  This page …

The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) has issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) for the Lunar Exploration Accelerator Program Science Instruments.

Weather data company MyRadar recently announced a launch agreement with Exolaunch to deploy weather satellites. The pathfinder satellites, called “HORIS-1” and “HORIS-2,” will be launching as part of two upcoming SpaceX Transporter rideshare missions.

A SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocketed into the dark sky at 1:05 a.m. EST from Launch Complex 39A in Florida with the Intuitive Machines IM-1 spacecraft and began its week long journey to the Moon. Canadian technology from Canadensys Aerospace and MDA are onboard.

New Brunswick-based Xplore Inc. and SpaceX's Canadian office have both been tapped for offers to provide satellite Internet service to 43,000 homes and businesses in Ontario. It's part of program from the Government of Ontario that it says will see the province invest "nearly $4 billion to bring reliable high-speed internet access to every community across the province by the end of 2025."  This page …

CTV News Ottawa recently interviewed Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen while he was in Ottawa to speak at the Actua National Conference.

Markham, Ontario based NordSpace finished their first test of a flight-ready rocket engine on Feb. 8 with the plan of launching to suborbital space later in the year. In an interview with SpaceQ, CEO Rahul Goel shared some details on funding, fuels and more. This page is for subscribers only. Already a subscriber? Log in. Fact-driven space news, columns, business, policy, technology and more. Support …

MDA announced this morning it had been awarded a $74 million contract from General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GS-ASI) to support the Canadian Armed Force MQ-9B SkyGuardian Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS). The Government of Canada signed a deal with GS-ASI on December 19, 2023 to purchase RPAS. A Canadian team is working on the project, called Team SkyGuardian Canada and includes MDA, CAE, and …

When astronaut Jeremy Hansen heads to the Moon as part of the Artemis II mission he will have two mission patches, the one created by NASA for the mission and his personal patch created by the Canadian Space Agency (CSA). This past week his personal patch was unveiled and its design was influenced by Hansen’s decade long interactions with Indigenous communities.