Mission accomplished for the TRANSAT...

2024-08-03, 03:48 Canadian Space Agency

On June 22, 2024, a stratospheric balloon preparing to launch for a transatlantic flight, from Kiruna, Sweden. (Credit: CSA)2024-08-02On June 22, 2024, as part of the TRANSAT 2024 campaign, the ...

Flywheel device tested on parabolic...

2024-07-23, 02:22 Canadian Space Agency

The flywheel being tested in microgravity by Yannick Laflamme, Exercise Specialist, Operational Space Medicine at the Canadian Space Agency, during a parabolic flight. (Credit: CSA)2024-07-22During ...

OSIRIS-APEX: From Bennu to Apophis

2024-07-10, 07:51 Canadian Space Agency

Reinvented as OSIRIS-APEX, the spacecraft formerly known as OSIRIS-REx has embarked on a new mission to study asteroid Apophis. (Credit: NASA)On September 24, 2023, after a 7-year-long journey ...

Jenni Gibbons learns to fly a...

2024-06-18, 23:23 Canadian Space Agency

Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut Jenni Gibbons flying a Bell412 training. (Credit: 2Lt Jesse Starko, 3 Canadian Forces Flying Training School)2024-06-18From June 10 to 14, 2024, CSA ...

Launch of Boeings Starliner Crew...

2024-06-18, 01:12 Canadian Space Agency

On June 5, 2024, the Boeing CST-100 Starliner spacecraft launched from Florida aboard the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket for the Crew Flight Test, carrying NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and ...

Canada in 3222 RADARSAT Constellation...

2024-06-18, 00:57 Canadian Space Agency

The RADARSAT Constellation Mission (RCM) consists of three Earth observation satellites. It helps with maritime surveillance, disaster management and ecosystem monitoring in Canada and around the ...

[Blog] smartWhales: Using space to...

2024-06-05, 20:18 Canadian Space Agency

Aerial photo of a North Atlantic right whale named Ruffian. (Credit: Centre for Coastal Studies NOAA federal permit #19315-01)Satellite data can be used in a wide range of fields, including climate ...

[Blog] 2024 National Forum on Earth...

2024-05-30, 02:20 Canadian Space Agency

Artistic rendering of the three satellites from the GHGSat fleet orbiting Earth, methane emission map and offshore platform in the Gulf of Mexico (Credits: GHGSat, C-CORE and CSA).Methane emissions ...

Congratulations to the winners of our...

2024-05-29, 04:16 Canadian Space Agency

Read about the amazing solutions young Canadians have come up with for the second edition of our Space Brain Hack. The theme this year was food in space, and we invited youth to design a system ...

2024 National Forum on Earth Observation

2024-05-29, 04:01 Canadian Space Agency

2024-05-28Today marks the start of the third National Forum on Earth Observation, organized by the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) in co-operation with its federal partners in Earth observation (EO). ...