Canada In Space

Today we have a special guest, he’s the new CEO of MDA. Ok, well the new CEO is none other than Mike Greenley who was the Group President of MDA until yesterday. Why the change in titles? Yesterday Northern Private Capital completed the acquisition of MDA from Maxar Technologies. MDA is now a Canadian owned company after paying Maxar $1 billion Canadian to acquire the 51 year old company.Mike and discuss the deal, what it means for MDA, its future and we also touch on the important topics of today such as COVID-19 and the bankruptcy of OneWeb.Listen in.

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The COVID-19 pandemic is a very serious global health crisis which is, and will, continue to have an economic impact, including on the space sector.To discuss the economic impact the Satellite Canada Innovation Network, or SatCan, is hosting a free virtual Town Hall on Thursday, April 9 at 11:00 am Eastern time. It's an opportunity for space industry professionals and stakeholders to have a candid discussion about the current and future state of the space industry in the challenging era of COVID-19.SatCan has asked that you consider these questions before attending.* What state is your company in now?* What has been the first-hand impact of the crisis on you so far?* What are you most worried about?* What would you like to see in the next month, 3 months, and 6 months that would make a positive difference to you?* Is there anything that you think the community can help you with today?You visit the SatCan website at https://satellitecanada.org to register.The SpaceQ podcast will be published this Thursday as usual.

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Host Iain Christie takes you through Johnson Space Center's Mission Control Center during the 90's with the first part of a new series, Tales from Mission Control.

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Today we’ve got a special episode with Canadian space exploration historian Chris Gainor.This past week Gainor was a guest on the Future in Space Operations teleconference. The topic of Gainor's talk was Hubble Space Telescope’s Contributions to Servicing Spacecraft On Orbit. For anyone interested in on-orbit spacecraft servicing, Gainor's research which will soon be published as a NASA Special Publication book and should be essential reading. The Hubble Space Telescope wasn’t designed to be serviced, and yet when critical problems arose, new techniques and plans were conceived which led to multiple servicing missions. The hard lessons learned in the servicing of Hubble shouldn’t be forgotten.Listen in.

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Hi I'm Marc Boucher of SpaceQ. Today we're simultaneously publishing our Terranauts podcast here on the SpaceQ channel and the Terranauts channel. We're doing this because some of you might not be familiar with Terranauts yet. In this new episode of Terranauts, host Iain Christie speaks with Gord Rigby and Alan Thompson of MDA about everything you might want to know about the RADARSAT program through the years and Synthetic Aperture Radar.Listen in.

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Hi, I’m Marc Boucher and this is the SpaceQ podcast.My guest today is Michael Graham the CEO of Space Simulation Services of Ottawa Corporation. More on the name in the interview. Space Simulation Services is an Ottawa based startup offering testing services for aerospace organizations with a particular focus on small satellites. A Canadian Space Agency report on the space sector recently identified satellite testing services as need in Canada to help speed-up the time it takes to get to market. This is where Graham’s company comes in. Listen in.

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The Canadian Space Agency departmental plan, aka its budget, will be released no later than early April. Today we provide a big picture look at the budget during the current fiscal year and preview next fiscal years.

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On February 10, 2020 NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine presented the State of NASA. In his speech he briefly discussed the the Commercial Lunar Payload Services program. The mention provides a good seque into today's podcast.Today we have special presentation. On January 8, 2020 Chris Culbert,Manager of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services program was a guest at the weekly Future in Space Operations teleconference.He provided an update on the program and towards the end of thepresentation spent some time talking about the lessons learned in thefirst year.Listen in.

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Canadian space startups are starting to gain more attention as venture capital, in and out of Canada, take notice. Case in point is SkyWatch which announced at the start of the year it had closed a Series A round valued at US$7.5M, CAN$10M. My guest today is James Slifierz, the CEO of SkyWatch. Slifierzs’ and his colleagues original idea of aggregating open source satellite data from NASA observatories won them the global prize in NASA’s space apps challenge in 2014. The company has since pivoted focusing on open source and commercial Earth observation data. Slifierzs' estimates there are about 375 active Earth observation satellites of which his company is already getting data from 225 of them. If data is the new oil, is SkyWatch a potential unicorn?A unicorn is a privately held startup company valued at over $1 billion.Listen in to my conversation with James Slifierz.

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Hi, I’m Marc Boucher and this is the SpaceQ podcast.This week my guest is Stephane Germain the founder and CEO of GHGSat. GHGSat is a Montreal based global emissions monitoring company. They’ve developed novel technology and a proprietary platform that uses data from sensors on their small satellite Claire and from airplanes. Soon they’ll have their second and third satellites launched as they hope to build out a small satellite constellation in low Earth orbit.Last week they were in Davos, Switzerland for the World Economic Forum having been invited as a Technology Pioneer.I caught up with Germain on his return to Montreal. He provided an update on the company and his thoughts on the World Economic Forum.Listen in.

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