The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) has budgeted approximately $65 million—representing over 40 percent of the agency’s total funds for a moon exploration project—to develop a lunar rover, according to an internal audit. On top of the $65 million for the rover, the CSA also said that around $20 million of the budget has been allocated to…

When scientists determined in the mid-1970s that the Mistastin crater in Labrador had lunar-like properties, the last Apollo mission had flown and it was too late for astronauts to take advantage of the site for training. But now, as Artemis astronauts prepare for the next moon mission, one Canadian expert says the remote crater could…

When Nathalie Nguyen-Quoc Ouellette was young, she didn’t see many stars in the bright skies over Montreal. But she would pore over the colourful, otherworldly images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope and dream of becoming an astrophysicist. “I really fell in love with space and astronomy,” she said. “There’s so much left to discover.” Today,…

More than a decade of delay and inaction has left the ships, planes and satellites that Canada relies on to monitor its rapidly opening Arctic on track to be retired before they can be replaced, the auditor general says. “The federal government has not taken the required action to address long-standing gaps affecting its surveillance…

Wanping Zheng, an engineer who was recently charged by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) for illegally using his position at the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) to help negotiate a satellite deal with Iceland on behalf of a Chinese company, has publicly acknowledged his participation in several critical Canadian aerospace projects. The RCMP said in a…