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Craig Bamford

Canada

Business and Culture Correspondent at SpaceQ

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  • 1 week ago | spaceq.ca | Craig Bamford

    Canada is taking steps to support its growing space sector, including Canadian Space Agency programs like the space technology development program (STDP) and the Lunar Exploration Accelerator Program (LEAP), as well as space-focused accelerator programs like the Creative Destruction Lab’s Space Stream. This has led to a number of promising Canadian space startups across a variety of sectors.

  • 3 weeks ago | spaceq.ca | Craig Bamford

    After several varyingly-successful attempts at a commercial landing on the Moon over the past few years, both the space industry and global onlookers were happy to watch Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lander succeed in safely reaching the lunar surface and complete its mission without incident.

  • 1 month ago | spaceq.ca | Craig Bamford

    At 5:15 a.m. EDT an Arianespace Vega C rocket launched a European Space Agency (ESA) satellite mission aimed at measuring the biomass of Earth’s forests. Appropriately called “Biomass,” the mission will be using a unique type of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) to perform the survey, one that has never previously been deployed on a satellite.

  • 1 month ago | spaceq.ca | Craig Bamford

    Canadian launch and propulsion startup Reaction Dynamics (RDX) scored a big win last week. Not just figuratively, but literally: after competing in several rounds of Tim Draper’s startup pitch reality show, Meet The Drapers, Reaction Dynamics emerged triumphant in the finals, with a million-dollar investment from Draper’s venture capital firm.

  • 2 months ago | spaceq.ca | Craig Bamford

    Rocket Lab has unveiled Its newest piece of hardware, the Flatellite, in their recent investors’ presentation and elaborated on in a longer announcement by the company. The Flatellite is a “scalable, long-life, high-power, stackable satellite” according to Rocket Lab; one whose stowed shape is reminiscent of an oversized pizza box. The company, headed by President and CEO Sir Peter Beck, was responsible for building and operating the Electron small orbital launcher.

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