Vancouver-based EarthDaily Analytics said Monday that NASA has awarded it a task order worth about $4.2 million ($US 3 million) to test whether imagery from its new satellite constellation is accurate enough to use with Landsat, the U.S. government’s half-century record of Earth’s land surface.

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The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) has opened bidding for early definition work on two pathfinder satellites that would test new radar technology for RADARSAT+, Canada’s next-generation Earth observation system, one operating in the Ku band and the other in the X band.

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It seems that a lot of startup firms are hiring these days. Or at least thinking about it. So, I thought I would use this column to talk about hiring – especially hiring those first “real” employees. By that I mean the first hires that aren’t just extra hands doing the same thing the founder already does, but people meant to take on a whole piece of the business the founder has been carrying alone.

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The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) wants companies to develop three priority technologies: a small telescope for CubeSats, camera electronics for the proposed CASTOR space telescope and a radar module for a planned snow-monitoring satellite.

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Rogers chief executive Tony Staffieri told analysts Friday that SpaceX plans to bring its Starlink Mobile phone service to Canada through wireless carriers rather than compete with them.

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U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra came to Space Canada’s SpaceBound conference in Gatineau last Tuesday with a message for Ottawa, one he delivered many times: Canada is making a mistake by going its own way. By the time the “fireside chat” was over, he had completed his task and inadvertently made the case for Canada’s push for sovereign space capabilities.

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Calgary’s North Vector Dynamics said Monday it has closed a Series A round of more than $29 million ($US 20 million) to move its CM-70 counter-drone interceptor from testing toward production.

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Industry Minister Mélanie Joly opened consultations at SpaceBound last week on a Canadian space act that would put in-space activity, and the ground segment that controls it, under one authorization. The government also released Canada’s first positioning, navigation and timing resilience framework.

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SpaceX earned its first profit as a public company in the third quarter, and for the first time this year its artificial intelligence business outsold Starlink. Revenue rose 161 per cent from a year earlier, to US$14.6 billion, and net income reached $4.4 billion.

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Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut Joshua Kutryk spent the week getting ready for his first spacewalk, filling spacesuit cooling garments with water and trying a suit on for fit, while NASA crewmates printed blood vessels and studied cancer cells in the space station’s labs.

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