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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 u

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. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Hi, I’m Marc Boucher and this is the SpaceQ podcast.Today we’ve got a special episode for you. On Sunday, January 19 SpaceX performed the Crew Dragon in-flight abort test. By all accounts, and from what I saw, it was a successful test. This means the next launch of the SpaceX Crew Dragon, Demo Mission 2, will carry NASA astronauts to the International Space Station.As you’ll hear, there’s still more to do before that launch happens. That launch could be as early as this spring, but is more likely to slip into the summer. But make no mistake about it, this was the final major flight milestone that needed to be accomplished before America begins launching astronauts on American rockets from American soil for the first time since 2011, nine years ago.And it won’t just be SpaceX launching astronauts to the ISS. Although Boeing's recent launch of its Starliner spacecraft didn’t go according to plan, and included, what some have characterized as an embarrassing timing issue, the Starliner spacecraft will follow Spa

This summer four missions will launch to Mars setting up an extraordinary year for the exploration of the red planet.My guest this week on the SpaceQ podcast is Chris Carberry, the CEO of Explore Mars, a not-for-profit that engages stakeholders in an effort to make a Humans to Mars mission a reality.The organizations holds a variety of events to engage stakeholders including its annual Humans to Mars Summit in Washington every May.Today, Chris will get us caught up on what the organization is doing, the status of a future human mission to Mars, and we’ll talk about the exciting year 2020 will be for Mars.The four missions are NASA’s Mars 2020 rover which includes the first ever helicopter, China’s HX-1 mission which consists of an orbiter and small rover, the European Space Agency's ExoMars lander and rover which has Russia and Canada participation, and lastly the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is sending an orbiter on what they’re calling the Hope Mars Mission. The Japanese are providing the launch for the UAE m

Happy New Year, this is the first SpaceQ podcast of 2020 and the last in our three part Winter Series from other creators. Today our podcast is from the Perimeter Institute and features Elizabeth Tasker in a live public lecture from November 6, 2019. Her lecture is titled "Home away from home, the hunt for habitable planets." Tasker is a British astrophysicist, science writer and an Associate Professor at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.As you’ll hear, Tasker is a very good science communicator. In this lecture, she takes a very complicated topic, the hunt for exoplanets, and in particular habitable worlds, and provides the listener with a true appreciation of what we know and don’t know, how we search and where we might find life. I was enlightened by her lecture, and I think you will be as well.Listen in. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Welcome to the second of 3 podcasts for our annual Winter Series. As with our Summer Series, we’ll be bringing you recent important news updates and talks on topics we think you’ll find interesting from other creators. Our regular interviews will resume on January 14th.On December 4th NASA announced the first results from the Parker Solar Probe mission. The mission is a first of its kind with the probe flying closer to the sun than any other spacecraft before. It’s a risky mission, but with rich scientific rewards expected. And in this news conference, the principal investigators confirm some long thought theories about our star, but also reveal some new mysteries.The seven year mission continues, and just five days ago the spacecraft successfully completed its second flyby of Venus. NASA says the spacecraft used Venus to slow itself down, approaching the planet at a distance of about 3,009 km (1,870 miles) from Venus’s surface during the second gravity assist of the mission. This gravity assist maneuver adju

In our first SpaceQ podcast episode of our annual Winter Series we're featuring a Future In-Space Operations teleconference on Maxar's Power and Propulsion Element for the Lunar Gateway.Our annual Winter Series podcast special runs for three weeks during the holiday and features important news updates or talks on topics we think you’ll find interesting from other creators. Our regular interviews will resume on January 14th.In this episode Scott Tilley and Ty Lee of Maxar Technologies discuss a critical Lunar Gateway technology, the Power and Propulsion Element, being developed for NASA.The Power and Propulsion Element is the first element in NASA’s Lunar orbiting Gateway which will form the basis of a sustainable human return to the moon and beyond. It's an important program for Maxar which could lead to years of sales to both NASA and potential future commercial customers. The program is currently in Preliminary Design Phase with the first demonstration element to be launched in 2022.Link to the presentatio

This is our last interview of the year before we start our annual 3 week Winter Series podcasts where we feature lectures or news events from other creators. We’ll be back with a new interview on January 14.Ok, my guest this week is Chad English who is an Industrial Technology Advisor for the Industrial Research Assistance Program at the National Research Council. I ran into Chad at the recent Canadian Space Summit where he was a speaker in the “I have 50Mbps! Now what?” session. That session focused on the coming broadband internet to rural and remote locations via Low Earth Orbit satellite constellations like the one Canada's Telesat is trying to build. Other companies looking to this marketplace include OneWeb, SpaceX and others.Chad and I discuss what LEO satellite constellations will mean to those people living in rural and remote communities along with new business opportunities that will be available.Listen in. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This weeks podcast is another live recording from the Canadian Space Summit. The speaker is Rob Postma, Vice President and Head of Governmental Export, Space Systems, Airbus.As you’ll hear Rob say, this talk, titled, Airbus 50 years pioneering progress, is meant to provide a picture of what Airbus has accomplished but more importantly what it’s planning.Listen in. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This weeks podcast is a live recording from the Canadian Space Summit. The opening keynote speaker for the conference was Sergy Mummert, Senior Vice President, Global Cloud & Strategic Partnerships, SES Networks.While the focus of the talk is on SES Networks with an emphasis on the how they’re building a Cloud-Optimized Satellite Ecosystem and their O3b Medium Earth Orbit constellation, it’s important to note why they were a key sponsor to the conference.While SES has been doing business in Canada for many years, including owning a majority stake in Ciel Satellite Group, they're now opening a new Canadian office with the aim of having a greater presence in Canada. They’ve hired their first Canadian employee, John Clarke, an industry veteran, as their Senior Sales Director.Listen in. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Today we’re doing something a little different. On this episode I’m going to provide a recap of last weeks Canadian Space Summit. Listen in. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Today our guest is Jessica West of Project Ploughshares, the editor of the 2019 Space Security Index. The index, in its 16th edition, looks at the global space sector to track trends in the use of outer space from a sustainability perspective.The 2019 index covers the 2018 calendar year and includes the following data from the report. "Space activity is flourishing. In 2018, 71 countries owned satellites. Seventy-two national space agencies spent a combined $70 billion. Eleven new agencies were created or announced. Some of the 2,062 active satellites saved 2,700 lives. The satellite industry earned $277 billion, while startups secured $3 billion in private investment.”The new report contains positive developments, but clearly shows more work needs to be done.Listen in. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Jupiter's moon Europa appears to have a salt water ocean. This excites scientists at it opens up the possibility there may be life. The Europa Clipper mission will try to gather more evidence to substantiate the theory.Europa has fascinated us since Galileo discovered it in 1610. In popular science fiction, Sir Arthur C. Clarke made it the centre piece of his novel 2010: Odyssey Two which was published in 1982. Odyssey Two was a follow-up to the original and classic 1968 movie, 2001: A Space Odyssey, directed by Stanley Kubrick.This weeks SpaceQ podcast is the last of our coverage from the recent international Astronautical Congress in Washington. It is plenary 6, Europa Clipper: Making a Mission to Understand Our Place in the Universe.Europa is slightly smaller than the Earth’s moon but scientist think it could have twice as much ocean water as the Earth! Today’s podcast will provide insight into Europa and NASA’s Europa Clipper mission. It should also be noted that the European Space Agency is also sending