A year ago, the Canadian Space Agency invited Canadians to suggest their favourite regional foods as part of the "Canadian Snacks for Space" contest. The agency announced the Canadian foods and names of the winners who will have their treats flown to the International Space Station to be included on Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield's menu. … Read more
NASA's Mars Science Laboratory touched down on the Red Planet Aug. 6 at 1:32 a.m. EDT, marking the second time a Canadian science instrument lands on Mars. The mission's rover, dubbed Curiosity, carries an instrument roughly the size and shape of a Rubik's cube provided by the Canadian Space Agency. Known as the Alpha Particle … Read more
The Canadian Space Agency announced that it has delivered its contribution to the James Webb Space Telescope (Webb), successor to the Hubble Space Telescope. The instrument arrived at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Baltimore, Maryland, where it will be integrated into the largest, most complex and most powerful telescope ever built. Scheduled to be … Read more
Industry Minister Christian Paradis (Megantic-L'Erable, QC) unveiled Canada's contribution to the James Webb Space Telescope, successor to the Hubble Space Telescope. The agency is contributing a two-in-one instrument that will direct the telescope precisely, allowing it to study stars and planets forming in other stellar systems. The highly advanced, made-in-Canada technology will be delivered to … Read more
The Canadarm left the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and and is on the road making its way home. Before reaching its final destination, the Canadarm will be transported to MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA) office to be sanitized and refurbished. Once ready, the Canadarm will be displayed at the Canadian Space Agency's John … Read more
At the invitation of NASA, the Canadian Space Agency begins a joint nine-day field test in a volcanic area near Hilo, Hawaii, to test technologies and concepts for lunar exploration. Dubbed RESOLVE (short for "Regolith and Environment Science and Oxygen and Lunar Volatile Extraction,") the project will demonstrate how future explorers could extract water and … Read more
Canadian Space Agency astronaut Chris Hadfield is currently the backup for NASA astronaut Sunita Williams who is scheduled to take off for the International Space Station on a Soyuz spacecraft on July 15, 2012. As such, he has passed all the final qualifications leading up to the launch and is on standby. More information is … Read more
Canadian Space Agency Astronaut Dr. Robert Thirsk has announced his plans to leave the agency in August 2012. He is a veteran of two spaceflights including Canada's first long-duration mission aboard the International Space Station. Agency president Steve MacLean said over a span of three decades, Thirsk has contributed to bringing science to the forefront … Read more
Dextre, the Canadian Space Agency's robotic handyman on board the International Space Station, will tackle the next steps of the joint NASA-CSA Robotic Refueling Mission (RRM) to demonstrate how robots could refuel satellites in space. These operations will build on the success of the first part of RRM, which began in March 2012. More information … Read more
The Canadian Space Agency announced that it is partnering with the French space agency (Centre national d'etudes spatiales) to launch space science balloons in Canada. The initiative will provide Canadian scientists and engineers with a new platform to test technologies and advance space science. The Canadian Space Agency and Centre national d'etudes spatiales have selected the City of Timmins, … Read more
