GATINEAU, Que. — Former NASA chief economist Alex MacDonald told Space Canada’s SpaceBound conference on Tuesday that the association’s members see “a legitimate opportunity for Canada to lead the world in space-based Arctic northern…
Defence is a major theme of the Space Canada SpaceBound conference in Gatineau this year, with nearly every panel touching upon it. Here are some notable moments discussing defence from various panels on Tuesday, Oct. 20 and Wednesday, Oct…
Canada’s space sovereignty effort is facing a speed and funding challenge, according to several industry speakers at Space Canada’s SpaceBound conference for industry, but they are willing to pitch in to help Canada in its push to build…
GATINEAU, Que. — Defence Minister David McGuinty announced Wednesday at Space Canada’s SpaceBound conference that the Department of National Defence (DND) will pay NordSpace $20 million over 10 years to keep a launch pad ready for military…
GATINEAU, Que. — Liberal MP Yasir Naqvi and Conservative MP Shuvaloy Majumdar announced Wednesday at Space Canada’s SpaceBound conference that they are founding a non-partisan Parliamentary Space Caucus to carry the space industry’s case…
GATINEAU, Que. — The White House does not see itself as being in a trade war with Canada, U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra said, adding that Canada should stay aligned with the Americans for space industry opportunities in the coming decades…
Reaction Dynamics (RDX) wants to put six tonnes in low Earth orbit by 2031 with Borealis, a medium-lift rocket the Longueuil, Que., company unveiled Tuesday as the SpaceBound industry conference opened. The company also plans to raise $350…
Lenders to Telesat have offered the Ottawa satellite operator a $3.2 billion rescue package, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday, to repay debt that comes due in December.
GATINEAU, QUE. – Canada will spend $15 million for Xona to open a new hub in Montreal to develop a sovereign satellite system focused on positioning, timing and navigation, the government announced today (Oct. 20).
A SpaceQ review of 16 space companies that went public through a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) finds that investors who kept their shares have lost money on 11 of them. NorthStar Earth & Space, which listed on Oct. 2, is the…
Jeremy Hansen, the first Canadian to fly around the Moon, told Canada’s space industry Monday night that his Artemis II crew became a real team only after agreeing to “launch as friends” and “land as friends,” and he asked the sector to…
Ottawa antenna maker C-COM Satellite Systems announced Oct. 14 it has developed a vehicle-mounted Q-band antenna that tracks communications platforms flying about 20 kilometres up, extending its driveaway product line into the emerging…
Two Canadian space companies signed three agreements with Indian partners on Minister of International Trade Maninder Sidhu’s trade mission to Mumbai and Bengaluru last week, a small share of the 34 deals worth close to $300 million that…
Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut Joshua Kutryk is scheduled to make two spacewalks at the International Space Station in the next few weeks to install new solar arrays, NASA said Oct. 14. A SpaceX cargo ship delivered the arrays a day…
Maritime Launch Services and NorthStar Earth & Space each won conditional approval to list on the Toronto Stock Exchange in the week ended Oct. 16. Maritime Launch, already on SpaceQ’s Canadian board, jumped 17 per cent on the news.…
Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut Joshua Kutryk will perform two spacewalks from the International Space Station (ISS) twice in the coming weeks, NASA announced Wednesday, to install the last two of the new solar arrays the station has…
NordSpace said Thursday it has started the second phase of construction at its Atlantic Spaceport Complex in St. Lawrence, N.L., beginning with a six-kilometre road to the site from which it plans to launch rockets to orbit no earlier than…
NorthStar Earth & Space, headquartered in Montreal, has received conditional approval to list on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX), filings with Québec’s securities regulator show, two weeks after the company’s shares began trading in New…
Maritime Launch Services (MLS) said Thursday the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) has conditionally approved its shares for listing, a move that would take the developer of Spaceport Nova Scotia from Cboe Canada to the country’s main stock…
Mission Control Space Services said Wednesday it has raised $10 million in a mix of equity and bank debt, money the Ottawa maker of rover, autonomy and mission-operations technology will spend on research, rover design and production, and…
The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) on Wednesday announced that 15 companies will share $11 million under its Space Technology Development Program (STDP) AO 10.
Czechoslovak Group (CSG), a Prague-based defence and industrial group, has paid about $656 million for a 9.5 per cent stake in MDA Space, a U.S. securities filing shows, and says it is now the Canadian company’s largest shareholder.
I have written before, often, about the relationship between founders of small space companies and the investment community. The short version of my standard soapbox is that a lot of venture capital operates the way a trader operates in…
SpaceX wants permission to launch Starship from Starbase, Texas, up to 456 times a year, and the FAA has opened a full environmental review of the plan.
LONGUEUIL, Que. — From the International Space Station (ISS), Canadian astronaut Josh Kutryk says he wants the country to see his mission as a symbol not only of what he’s doing now, but what is possible in space. Speaking with SpaceQ…
Frazer-Nash Consultancy has published a review of In-Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU) technology capabilities in the United Kingdom (UK) for the UK Space Agency.
NASA released its final request for proposals (RFP) Friday for the commercial space stations meant to replace the International Space Station (ISS), setting a Dec. 8 deadline for bids and saying it expects to award contracts in spring 2027.
Four crew members of SpaceX’s Crew-12 mission splashed down in the Pacific Ocean off Los Angeles on Oct. 8, days after cosmonaut Pyotr Dubrov took command of the International Space Station, leaving Canada’s Joshua Kutryk among seven…
Every Canadian company on SpaceQ’s board declined in a week the S&P/TSX Composite rose 0.5 per cent. The SpaceQ Canadian Space Index fell 5.4 per cent to 98.70.
NorthStar Earth & Space said it will ring the closing bell at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on Friday, a week after its shares began trading. The company also announced this week a technical director for its U.S. operation.