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1 week ago | spaceq.ca | Marc Boucher

The next Blue Origin flight of its crewed suborbital New Shepard spacecraft is now scheduled for Saturday, May 31 and will include Canadian entrepreneur Jesse Williams. NS-32 mission will include six crew members; Aymette Medina Jorge, Dr. Gretchen Green, Jaime Alemán, Mark Rocket, Paul Jeris along with Jesse Williams.

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.

1 week ago | spaceq.ca | Marc Boucher

The first session of the 45th Parliament gets underway today with the Liberal Party back in power with a surprising fourth minority government in a row. It wasn’t many months ago where all the polls had the Conservatives slated to win the next election, and quite possibly with a majority government. Then along came the election of Donald J.

2 weeks ago | spaceq.ca | Marc Boucher

Two Canadian companies who are developing launch vehicles among other products, released video this week of their respective rocket engine test firing. On May 20th NordSpace released a video of a May 16 video engine test.

2 weeks ago | spaceq.ca | Marc Boucher

The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) issued a new opportunity on Friday, May 16 just before the Victoria Day/National Patriots’ Day (QC) long weekend for the High-altitude Aerosols, Water vapour and Clouds (HAWC) mission. The HAWC mission or HAWCsat as it has been also called, is a Canadian led mission in which Canada will build the satellite and provide two instruments, the Aerosol Limb Imager (ALI) and Spatial Heterodyne Observations of Water (SHOW).