Topic: Satellites

Managing a growing market in space

Maritime Launch Services may just be breaking ground on its Nova Scotia spaceport, but has its future flight plans well in hand.

If you build it …

Construction has only just begun on Canada’s first spaceport, but customers are already starting to line up.

UrtheCast taps SADI to develop 16- radar and optical satellite constellation

Vancouver’s UrtheCast Corp has received $17.6 million from the Strategic Aerospace & Defence Initiative (SADI) to further develop its planned constellation of earth observation satellites. The 16-satellite constellation will consist of eight synthetic aperture radar satellites and eight high-resolution optical satellites. SADI will support the project through its four-year pre-commercial design and development phase and…