Today’s budget from the government provides the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) with $397 million of new money to help fund the RADARSAT Constellation Mission over 5 years. Along with $100 million that the CSA already has, the CSA will have a total of $497 million for the project. The bulk of the spending will happen after 2011-2012. This project which had already been in the research stage is a continuation of the Earth Observation thrust and is designed to help protect Canadian sovereignty, in particular the arctic.
More to come as we dissect the budget.