Canada In Space

My guest this week is David Haight, Chief Economist at the Canadian Space Agency.Before starting at the Canadian Space Agency in November of 2015, David worked at Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada, or ISED, first as a Senior Policy Analyst, Policy and Sector Services Branch, and then as Manager in the Analytics and Sector Intelligence, Automotive and Transportation Industries Branch.Today we’ll be talking about the recently released Patents in Space report from the Canadian Intellectual Property Office which the Canadian Space Agency participated in. As well, we’ll discuss the recently released annual Canadian State of the Space Sector report for 2016.Links:- A Canadian Intellectual Property Office Patent Report Indicates a Potential Advantage for the Canadian Space Sectorhttp://www.spaceq.ca/a-canadian-intellectual-property-office-patent-report-indicates-a-potential-advantage-for-the-canadian-space-sector/- The Canadian Space Economy Remains Flat But Opportunity Aboundshttp://www.spaceq.ca/the-canadian-space-economy-remains-flat-but-opportunity-abounds/

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Hi, I’m Marc Boucher and this is the SpaceQ podcast. If you like what we do, please support us on Patreon at https://patreon.com/spaceq. We need your support to make this weekly show. My guest this week is Tory Bruno the president and CEO of United Launch Alliance or as it’s commonly called ULA. Tory joined ULA from Lockheed Martin in August 2014 with a mission to evolve the company in an increasingly competitive market where competitor SpaceX was nipping at their heels to garner a portion of the very lucrative military launch business. In his four years at the helm of the company, he’s had to make many changes, including downsizing the company, making the Atlas V more competitive by dropping the price by as much as 37%, developing plans for a next generation rocket named Vulcan and more.As you’ll hear from Tory, there’s also been some culture change and innovation in reusability isn’t just what SpaceX does. Importantly to ULA, their next rocket, Vulcan, will feature the Advanced Cryogenic Evolved Stage, or ACES upper stage, that the company is betting heavily on.Read the story that goes with this podcast:http://spaceq.ca/ula-betting-big-on-new-vulcan-rocket-for-future-business/

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On July 1st Australia’s Space Agency started operations. It’s an important milestone for the country as they look to space to help drive economic growth with an eye to tripling their share of the global space market by 2030.My guests on this weeks SpaceQ podcast are today are Kirby Ikin and Bill Barrett of Sydney based Asia Pacific Aerospace Consultants. Kirby is the Managing Director of APAC while Bill is Senior Vice President. Both have extensive experience working in the industry and have worked with Australia’s government over the years to promote and grow its space industry. Kirby also serves as the Chairman of the Board of the National Space Society.Both Kirby and Bill provide insights as to how Australia lost it’s space agency in the late 90’s for economic reasons, only to see it rebooted now for economic reasons.It turns out Australia’s space industry is stronger than even the government realized, and now with bipartisan support, the country is charting a new course to take advantage of Australia’s strengths. That course includes developing a national strategic plan for the country.

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This week our guest is Jeffrey Osborne, Co-founder & Vice President of Business Development at Toronto based Kepler Communications.Kepler is developing next-generation satellite communication technologies for the Machine to Machine and Internet of Things satellite market with the goal of launching a constellation of 140 satellites for that developing marketplace. To date they’ve launched one of three demonstration satellites. Another will launch this summer followed by another in mid-2019.Today, Jeffrey and I talked about the news this week that they had partnered with Satellite Applications Catapult, a UK company created by the government Innovate UK program to drive economic growth through the exploitation of space. Catapult will help Kepler expand their operations into the UK and Europe. We also discussed their application with the US FCC to get a spectrum license for their satellites as well as a recent contract with the Canadian Space Agency and their experience launching with China.

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This week my guest is astrophysicist Rob Thacker, a Professor at Saint Mary’s University. Rob is also the new president of the Canadian Astronomical Society, a society of professional astronomers. He also co-hosts the CBC Nova Scotia radio show, the Sound of Science, is also a guest on News 1310’s Ottawa Today show and a guest on Science Ship on Rogers TV. Our topic this week is Canadian astronomy missions and a recent independent report that offered mix results on the Canadian Space Agency’s space astronomy and planetary missions programs. The lack of funding was one of the issues the report mentioned. Also of note, the Canadian Space Agency’s Departmental Plan for 2018-19, basically the agency’s blueprint of what it will do in this current fiscal year, has no funding for any new astronomy missions.

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Our topic this week is Canada’s long term planning in the mining sector, specifically the ongoing consultation for the Canadian Minerals and Metals Plan which recently included a consultation session on space mining.I have two guests to discuss this topic. In the first segment I speak with Glenn Mason, Assistant Deputy Minister, Lands and Minerals Sector from the Department of Natural Resources.In the second segment I spoke Michelle Ash, Chief Innovation Officer at traditional mining giant, Barrick Gold.For those interested in the space industry’s take on space mining, I will direct you to episode 38 from March in which I spoke with Dale Boucher.Show timing notes:Introduction - 00:16Guest 1: Glenn Mason - 01:16Guest 2: Michelle Ash - 20:44If you like what we do please support on a Patreon;https://www.patreon.com/spaceqPlease visit SpaceQ for the latest space news:https://spaceq.ca

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Hi, I’m Marc Boucher and this is the SpaceQ podcast. This is a special podcast in that it is our 50th, and marks one year since I started the show.I want to thank our growing audience who have contributed to having our podcasts played 20,000 times so far.To keep this show going we need your continued support. For those who are not yet supporting us through our crowdfunding site on Patreon, I would ask that you consider supporting us now. The address is https://www.patreon.com/spaceqMy guest this week is Philip Ferguson, Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, at the University of Manitoba, a position he started last fall. Phil was also was recently named as the NSERC / Magellan Aerospace Industrial Research Chair in Satellite Engineering at the university.As you’ll hear, Phil has had a pretty eventful career working in industry before settling in at the University of Manitoba last fall. He received his PhD in Aerospace Engineering at MIT and has worked on the International Space Station's Special Purpose Dexterous Manipulator program, commonly referred to as Dextre, Canada’s first microsatellite MOST, NEOSSat, the RADARSAT Constellation Mission and drones.Along the way he’s worked at MDA, Dynacon, Microsat Systems Canada Inc., Magellan Aerospace and PrecisionHawk.In our conversation you’ll hear how Phil is helping in trying to make the University of Manitoba a Small Satellite Innovation Hub.

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Canadian Space Agency (CSA) president Sylvain Laporte surprised the audience at the CASI ASTRO 18 conference with his talk. Expecting an update on CSA activities, the audience listened attentively when Laporte addressed "the elephant in the room."That elephant is the budget where the Liberals didn't address a new space strategy or address the budgetary problems in a meaningful way.Listen to Mr. Laporte's full speech in this weeks podcast and read our story here:http://spaceq.ca/the-message-the-canadian-space-agency-is-moving-on/

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Hi, I’m Marc Boucher and this is a special edition of the SpaceQ podcast. In this podcast recorded at the CASI ASTRO 18 conference in Quebec City, you’ll hear from Jacques Giroux, Business Development Manager, Space & Defence Systems at ABB. Jacques is also the incoming president of CASI, the organizers of the conference.ABB is large Swiss multinational company with 135,000 employee and revenues of $34.3B in 2017. ABB has about 4,000 employees in Canada but less than 5% of those work in its space segment which is headquartered in Quebec City. And while the space segment is a very small portion of the overall company, it is an important segment as you’ll hear. It’s even possible you might not have heard of their efforts in Canada. That’s primarily because most of their work is exported. In particularly, they are known for their weather satellite sensors which are being used today on European and U.S. satellites. Some of that technology was developed and leveraged from past investments the Canadian government made in science satellites, like SciSat.

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Hi, I’m Marc Boucher and this is a special edition of the SpaceQ podcast. In this podcast from the CASI ASTRO 18 conference in Quebec City, you’ll hear from Dr. Lucy Stojak, Chair of the government appointed Space Advisory Board. Dr. Stojak was the CASI 2018 Turnbull Lecturer and provided a review of the activities of the Space Advisory Board to date along with their planned future activities.For more podcasts and stories from CASI ASTRO 18, go to http://spaceq.ca/tag/astro-2018.

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