Canada In Space

My guest for episode 2 is Aram Kerkonian, a lawyer from Ontario, studying a masters in law and a research assistant of the Institute of Air and Space Law at McGill University and the co-author of the recently completed Independent Review of the Remote Sensing Space Systems Act.The department of Global Affairs Canada tasked the Institute of Air and Space Law to complete the independent review, the second by the Institute, the first having been completed in 2012.As part of its recommendations the report states Canada should implement a new General Outer Space Act. I discussed that issue and others related to the Remote Sensing Space Systems Act that are important to the space community and Canadians, even if most aren't aware of it.You can learn more about the report on SpaceQ at http://spaceq.ca/independent-review-remote-sensing-space-systems-act/

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Welcome to episode 1 of the SpaceQ podcast. Our guest for the show is Sylvain Laporte, the president of the Canadian Space Agency (CSA).Mr. Laporte joined SpaceQ via telephone on the afternoon of Wednesday, May 31, 2017. Since this was the first interview we've ever conducted with Mr. Laporte, we discussed a variety of topics including the current astronaut selection initiative, the CSA's budget, a policy issue, the upcoming RADARSAT Constellation Mission, climate change, space commercialization, the CSA's education and public outreach efforts and some of the concepts for missions beyond low Earth orbit including a possible Canadian effort at the moon.

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Short Take is a feature of SpaceQ where we take excerpts from a longer interview and embed them into the article on our website at https://spaceq.ca.In today's Short Take I asked Steve Oldham, Senior Vice President, Strategic Business Development at SSL, for a comment on the new lawsuit SSL filed versus Orbital ATK regarding the data breach on a NASA server. Steve didn't hold back with his comment.Read the story: https://spaceq.ca/is-the-data-breach-by-orbital-atk-of-ssl-data-on-a-nasa-server-corporate-espionage/

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Short Take is a feature of SpaceQ where we take excerpts from a longer interview and embed them into the article on our website at http://spaceq.ca.In today’s Short Take I spoke with Mike Safyan and Rachel Holm of Planet Labs.Planet Labs is an earth observation company who see growth opportunities in Canada. In mid-2015 they acquired Blackbridge of Lethbridge, Alberta and their RapidEye constellation of 5 satellites. They also hope to open a ground station in Inuvik sometime this year.Here's the link to the story: https://spaceq.ca/planet-labs-sees-growth-opportunity-in-canada/

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Short Take is a new feature to SpaceQ where we take excerpts from a longer interview and embed them into the article on our website at spaceq.ca. In today’s Short Take I spoke with John Isella, of Maritime Launch Services who are looking to open a Spaceport in Nova Scotia for a medium class satellite launch service.Here's the link to the story: https://spaceq.ca/maritime-launch-services-to-decide-on-nova-scotia-spaceport-in-march/

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