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NASA led Space Apps Challenge

Education, News

Two Canadian Teams Selected as Global Winners for the NASA Space Apps Challenge

by Marc BoucherJanuary 17, 2025January 17, 2025

NASA announced the global winners for the 10 different categories in the 2024 Space Apps Challenge and they include two Canadian teams.

ExoMars rover

Western University Led-team to Participate in Rover Instrument Field Tests Ahead of ExoMars Mission

by Elizabeth HowellJune 20, 2024June 20, 2024

NASA astronauts Kate Rubins and Andre Douglas push a tool cart loaded with lunar tools through the San Francisco Volcanic Field north of Flagstaff, Arizona, as they practice moonwalking operations for Artemis III

Artemis III Moonwalks and Terrestrial Training

by Marc BoucherMay 15, 2024May 15, 2024

Western postdoctoral fellow Tara Hayden with a lunar meteorite, which was not a part of the study, in the Earth and Planetary Materials Analysis Laboratory

Lunar Meteorite Hints that the Moon’s Crust had Abundant Water

by Elizabeth HowellJanuary 22, 2024January 22, 2024

This image is a composite of all satellite detections from one camera for one night of the six making up the satellite tracking array camera.

Western University to Monitor Growing Number of Satellites Passing Above Canada

by Marc BoucherSeptember 18, 2023September 18, 2023

Artist’s Illustration: Two suited crew members work on the lunar surface. One in the foreground lifts a rock to examine it while the other photographs the collection site in the background. Image credit: NASA.

Canadian Researcher Gordon Osinski Named to Artemis 3 Geology Team for the First Crewed Artemis Lunar Landing

by Elizabeth HowellSeptember 1, 2023September 1, 2023

Supercell forming in Edson, Alberta (west of Edmonton) on July 24, 2023.

‘Twister’ Made Real – Hailsonde Sensors Fly Into Alberta Storm in Hollywood-like Moment

by Elizabeth HowellAugust 28, 2023August 28, 2023

Three 2U CubeSat's part of the Canadian CubeSat Project are deployed from the International Space Station

Education, News

Five Canadian CubeSat Project Satellites Set for Launch Saturday

by Marc BoucherJune 2, 2023June 2, 2023

AstroSat

Canadian Researchers Receive Funding for Continuing AstroSat Science Investigations

by Marc BoucherMay 9, 2023May 9, 2023

Illustration - Exoplanet transiting a sun

Hunting for Avatar’s Pandora with the Pandora SmallSat

by Marc BoucherMay 8, 2023May 10, 2023