Sherbrooke-based quantum sensor developer SBQuantum has closed an oversubscribed $4 million USD (approximately $5.48 million CAD) seed funding round. The announcement coincides with the appointment of a new chief executive and the establishment of a dedicated United States subsidiary to target American defence and government contracts.

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EarthDaily is ready to ramp up to its full constellation of 10 satellites – tenfold the number in orbit right now – as it aims for commercial operations in September.

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The Canadian Space Agency (CSA), in partnership with the Privy Council Office’s Impact Canada Initiative, has awarded Toronto-based Canadian Strategic Missions Corporation (CSMC) the $400,000 grand prize in the Aqualunar Challenge.

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On April 14, 2026, the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) issued National Science and Technology Memorandum 3 (NSTM-3), officially launching the National Initiative for American Space Nuclear Power.

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Toronto-based Kepler Communications continues to cement its role in the European Space Agency’s (ESA) high-throughput broadband architecture, announcing today it has been selected as the prime contractor for HydRON Element 3.

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The federal government has officially authorized Canada’s participation in a new suite of European Space Agency (ESA) programs, subject to ratification, marking an expansion of the country’s international space partnerships. Recent Orders in Council dated March 30, 2026, authorize the formal signing of arrangements that embed Canada into four multilateral ESA initiatives: Moonlight, FutureNAV, ACCESS, […]

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Following the recent award of the $32 million Surveillance of Space 2 (SofS 2) contract to MDA Space, UK-based Spaceflux has been selected as the optical systems provider for the program’s three new ground-based observatories.

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Editor’s Note Welcome to the fifth briefing of In Defence of Canada. In the modern battlespace, raw orbital data is obsolete. Allied militaries no longer want pixels; they want algorithmic pipelines. […]

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MDA Space announced the launch of MDA MIDNIGHT today at the 41st Space Symposium in Colorado Springs. The new offering is a space control platform designed specifically for defence organizations to protect critical assets in the space domain.

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Mission Control has selected Magellan Aerospace to join its team developing concepts for Canada’s Lunar Utility Rover. Working within a consortium of Canadian partners, Magellan will design subsystems for a vehicle described as a semi-autonomous, minibus-sized rover.

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