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1 week ago | spaceq.ca | Marc Boucher

The White House’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released its budget proposal for FY2026 today that includes a cut of nearly 25% for NASA and would ax the Lunar Gateway. The budget proposal stated it would “terminate the Gateway, a small lunar space station in development with international partners, which would have been used to support future SLS and Orion missions.” Also being phased out is the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft.

1 week ago | spaceq.ca | Marc Boucher

In late January Polaris Aerospace released a white paper titled The Need For Canadian Sovereign Space Launch. At the Canadian Space Launch Conference, Neil Woodcock highlighted some of those points.

2 weeks ago | spaceq.ca | Marc Boucher

Brigadier-General Christopher Horner was the opening keynote speaker at the Canadian Space Launch Conference. Horner emphasized the critical importance of Canada developing a sovereign and resilient space capability including launch, and that the space domain has become a part of Canada’s critical national infrastructure.

2 weeks 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.

2 weeks ago | spaceq.ca | Marc Boucher

With the first Canadian Space Launch Conference upon us, many questions will be asked and SpaceQ will be onsite to cover the news and pass along what we learn. For this story we’re asking the question, how many spaceports does Canada need? There are several answers to the question depending on your perspective. So let’s dig in. At the moment we’re in the nascent phase of developing a spaceport marketplace and it was in 2015 that an industry group was created to support spaceport efforts globally.