“Recognized today as the origin of the New Space revolution, this tiny spacecrafts [CubeSats] have revolutionized the Space Age, challenging the traditional ways of space exploration” #space #cubesat #smallsat

One of the biggest advances in technology needed to truly expand humanity into the Solar System will be efficient and cost-effective manufacturing while in space. Made in Space seems to be taking the lead

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On January 15th, Toronto, ON based satellite-maker Kepler Communications launched its first satellite into orbit aboard a Chinese Long March 11 rocket. Now Kepler has credited the success of the mission

The first SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket is currently scheduled for launch on Tuesday, February 6th, 2018 from Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida in order to take advantage of a launch

Secondly, real innovation and  commercialization efforts are being pushed in Canada by a variety of  innovative "apps contests" and challenges, not just private  sector venture capital markets,

Nine years ago, an independent investment bank reported that Canada had "no dedicated programs"  to support the growth of innovative, aerospace focused small business  start-ups comparable

The US International Trade Commission (ITC) has unanimously ruled that the C-Series airliners which Montreal, PQ based Bombardier Aerospace intends to sell to Atlanta, GA based Delta Air Lines do

It's worth noting that, at least when he isn't encouraging the staff at his Richmond BC based MDA subsidiary to continue insisting that it's still "all Canadian eh!," San Francisco, CA based Maxar Technologies

One of the problems with specializing on building components for the space program of other nations is that sometimes those international plans of co-operation don't turn out quite as intended... 

Just a few decades ago when you thought about Space Industry hubs, South American locations probably wouldn't have been on your list. But, that is definitely changing! Did you know Ecuador has a civilian

Not all propulsion companies are trying to revolutionize engines for launch vehicles. There's a growing number of astropreneurs who see opportunity in providing increased orbital capability and control

According to Arny Sokoloff, the president of Toronto, ON based Contimuum Aerospace, "Continuum Aerospace applauds Rocket Lab's success but bemoans that we had developed a functionally comparable design

Huntington CA and New Zealand based Rocket Lab has launched an Electron rocket from its private spaceport in New Zealand, successfully achieving earth orbit and deploying three commercial satellites. The

BC based MDA Corporation, generally considered (even by its current owners) to be "a business unit" of the larger San Franscisco, CA based Maxar Technologies, has taken the unusual step of issuing a January

The decade-old Google Lunar X-Prize (GLXP) will officially end on March 31st, 2018 very likely without a winner due to multiple teams dropping out of the race from financial/technical issues or facing

An interferometer built by Montreal, PQ based ABB Canada is at the heart of the Joint Polar Satellite System-1 (JPSS-1), an Earth observation satellite launched by NASA for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric

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