If you’d  like to participate, please RSVP the meeting chair at meetings@spacecommerce.ca. For more information, please go to the bimonthly meetings page.

The CSCA holds meetings in Toronto on the second Thursday of every other month, at the law offices of Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP, 199 Bay Street, Suite 4000, Commerce Court West, Toronto, Ontario, M5L 1A9.

CSCA Director Farnaz Ghadaki is chairing the November 23rd commerce and commercialization sessions and has lined up an informative and topical series of speakers including Nathan Armstrong, the advisor for advanced manufacturing with the Alberta Space Program and president of Motive Industries; Chris Gainor, Canadian space historian and author of Arrows to the Moon: Avro’s Engineers and the Space Race; Nicole Geske, the operations manager at Lethbridge based data centre services provider BlackBridge Networks; Chuck Black, CSCA treasurer and writer/editor of the Commercial Space Blog; Jan Christopher Arp with Euroconsult North America; Jonathan Beland with Futron Corporation; and Natasha Rhodes, a travel advisor and “accredited space travel agent” for Virgin Galactic at the Vision 2000 Travel Group, who will be speaking in conjunction with Stephen Attenborough, the commercial director for suborbital spacecraft providers Virgin Galactic.

For more information on this event, please go to the Canadian Space Society website.

Meetings are called to order at 7:30 pm EST and the presentation begins at 8:00 pm EST sharp.

All are welcome to attend this open meeting which will also be available live as an online webinar beginning at 8pm EST. If you’d like to participate, please RSVP the meeting chair at meetings@spacecommerce.ca.

For more information, please check out the CSCA bimonthly meetings page.

The article quotes David Vaccaro, program manager for Futron Corporation, as stating that the index shows Canada has slipped behind India and is being challenged hard by Brazil, China, Israel, Japan and South Korea.

“My sense is that what’s really happening is that as other countries start to move up, Canada has lost relative positional strength because other countries have started to advance faster,” he told The Canadian Press.

The article also quotes CSCA treasurer Chuck Black and Canadian Space Society President Kevin Shortt.

Our guest speaker is David Vaccaro, a program manager for Futron Corporation, a leader in providing innovative Decision Management Solutions (DMS) to the new-space and aerospace industries.

David and his team, including analysts Jay Gullish, Ian Christensen, and Jon Beland, will discuss Canadian competitiveness in the international space and aerospace arena by referencing data collected for the recently published 2011 Futron Space Competitiveness Index.

Meetings are called to order at 7:30 pm EST and the presentation begins at 8:00 pm sharp.  This meeting will be accessible online so if you’d like to attend, please RSVP the meeting chair at meetings@spacecommerce.ca.

For more information, please visit our CSCA website at www.spacecommerce.ca.

Our guest speaker is David Vaccaro, a program manager for Futron Corporation, a leader in providing innovative Decision Management Solutions (DMS) to the new-space and aerospace industries. David and his team, including analysts Jay Gullish, Ian Christensen, and Jon Beland, will discuss Canadian competitiveness in the international space and aerospace arena by referencing data collected for the recently published 2011 Futron Space Competitiveness Index.

Meetings are called to order at 7:30pm and the presentation begins at 8:00 pm sharp. All are welcome to attend this open meeting so if you’d like to participate, please RSVP the meeting chair at meetings@spacecommerce.ca.

For more information, please check out the bimonthly meetings page.

This is a open meeting for all with a special guest speaker to be announced shortly. To attend, please RSVP by contacting the meeting chair at meetings@spacecommerce.ca.

Meetings are called to order at 7:30pm and the presentation begins at 8:00 pm sharp. To find out more, please visit our CSCA website at www.spacecommerce.ca.

This is a closed meeting for current CSCA members only where we will be discussing upcoming initiatives. All current CSCA members are encouraged to attend.

Please RSVP by contacting the meeting chair at meetings@spacecommerce.ca before 5pm EST today to confirm attendance.

Meetings are called to order at 7:30pm and the presentation begins at 8:00 pm sharp. To find out more, please visit our CSCA website at www.spacecommerce.ca.