Eleven people are living on the International Space Station after the SpaceX's Crew-13 e arrived Oct. 1, among them Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut Joshua Kutryk, on what the NASA called a record-setting 7-hour, 55-minute Dragon flight from Florida.

Canada Rocket Company plans a $30-million engine test site at London International Airport, to be named for astronaut Jeremy Hansen and fully operational in 2028.

NorthStar Earth & Space began trading on NYSE American as NSTR on Friday and closed 42 per cent below Viking's last price. The SpaceQ Canadian Space Index rose 0.9 per cent to 104.05.

The Nuclear Innovation Institute said Thursday it has launched the Canadian Centre for Space Isotopes in Toronto, a group that will study how Canada can become a leader in supplying the radioactive isotopes that power deep-space probes.

Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut Josh Kutryk entered the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday night, hours after NASA said his SpaceX Dragon capsule made the fastest trip to the orbiting laboratory by any U.S. spacecraft.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on the Transporter-18 ridershare mission launched three Canadian satellites from California on Thursday: two methane monitors for GHGSat and the first satellite built by NordSpace.

Calian Group and Invest Ottawa announced the Northstar Defence Lab at Ottawa's Area X.O, the first in Calian's planned national network of defence labs.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida — Astronaut Josh Kutryk reached space today aboard SpaceX, marking the beginning of the Canadian Space Agency’s (CSA) fourth long-duration mission — the first such one in eight years.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Mission managers say SpaceX Crew-13, which includes Canadian Space Agency astronaut and mission specialist Josh Kutryk, is so far ready to fly on Thursday, Oct. 1.

Toronto’s SFL Missions said Monday that GHGSat has awarded it a contract to build GHGSat-D2, a demonstration satellite that will weigh nearly 100 kilograms, about six times the 15-kilogram average of the satellites SFL has built for GHGSat since 2016.

Sovereign launch is a hot topic for both Canadians and several other nations, but it isn't the only space-related capability that governments have to consider. Another topic getting as much consideration is sovereign communications: the ability to ensure that you always have access to space-based communications when you need them, without the concern that those capabilities might be compromised.

Two GHGSat methane satellites and NordSpace's Terra Nova are the only Canadian payloads on SpaceX's published Transporter-18 deployment list.

Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut Joshua Kutryk and his three Crew-13 crewmates suited up and climbed into their Dragon spacecraft at the launch pad Tuesday, a dress rehearsal two days before their planned liftoff for the International Space Station (ISS).

SpaceX flew a Starship into orbit for the first time Monday, but not before one of Ship 41's engines quit, forcing a 20-minute hold while controllers decided whether the mission would go for orbit. Ship 41 was given the green light to push on to orbit, then released 26 Starlink version 3 (V3) satellites — the first time SpaceX has added working satellites to the network from Starship.

NorthStar Earth & Space announced Monday it has promoted Peter Klimas, its engineering chief, to chief technology officer, effective Sept. 24. The Montreal company catalogs objects in orbit and dubs itself as a space intelligence and data analytics company for defence and civil customers including Canada’s 3 Canadian Space Division, the U.S. Space Force and the European Space Agency.

NASA and SpaceX confirmed an Oct. 1 launch date for Crew-13 this week, clearing the way for Canadian Space Agency astronaut Joshua Kutryk to finish a nearly two-decade path to orbit, while a new Progress cargo ship reached the International Space Station and the outgoing crew kept up a full research schedule.

The SpaceQ Canadian Space Index rose 1.6 per cent to 103.17 this week. It's the first issue with enough history to chart how the index has moved since its Sept. 4 launch.

MDA Space has become the Denver Broncos' first official space partner, the two organizations announced Tuesday, a year after the company struck a similar sponsorship with the Ottawa Senators — its only other major professional sports partnership.

Astronaut Josh Kutryk, who will fly to the International Space Station (ISS) as soon as next week, reflected in a video press conference today (Sept. 24) from quarantine about the various turns in his journey to get to space, now set for no earlier than (NET) Oct. 1 at 11:10 a.m. EDT.

Carleton University’s Planetary Rover Team won the 2026 Canadian International Rover Challenge in Alberta. The team scored 100 points more than any of the competitors at the event last month, which was held in the badlands near Drumheller: in real numbers, that was 382.19 points for Carleton, against the second-place score of 256.21. “It was a bit crazy,” Owen Davidson, president of the Carleton rover team, told SpaceQ.

MDA Space will be able to buy back as much as 5 per cent of its own stock over the next year, after the Toronto Stock Exchange approved the company's buyback plan Monday. MDA is dual-listed, trading under the same ticker on the TSX and the New York Stock Exchange.

The Launch Canada challenge arrived last month in a spectacular fashion, with the announcement that they will be receiving significant  DRDC support from the Canadian federal government under the “Launch the North” program.

This is my first column in a while and I got to thinking that, although I’ve been writing this column for a while now, a fair number of readers may have started reading it without ever getting a proper introduction. So let me start the “new” year with an introduction.

GHGSat is designing a second-generation satellite that should spot methane leaks half the size its current fleet can reliably see, the company said Monday, with launch planned for early 2028.

RSAT Space Inc. has signed a Distribution Agreement giving it non-exclusive rights to sell INNOSPACE's HANBIT rocket launches in Canada, turning April's MOU into a formal sales arrangement.

The McGill Institute of Air and Space Law (IASL) celebrates its 75th anniversary this month, marking a milestone that came six years before orbital spaceflight launched in 1957.

Britain will put more than £7.8 billion (about $14.6 billion Canadian) behind a new national space strategy built around two goals — defence and national security, and growth of the UK economy — with its single largest funding pot, satellite communications, weighted mostly toward defence.

Fall reaches the Canadian Arctic weeks before it touches the rest of the continent. Satellite images released by NASA this month show tundra near Nunavut's Coppermine River turning red, orange and yellow in early September.

Canada and Norway said Sunday their space agencies have finalized a cooperation agreement, as Prime Minister Mark Carney hosted Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre in Ottawa and two more companies signed onto a space-and-defence relationship the two countries have been developing since March.

Canada and France have directed their space agencies and defence ministries to develop and share space-launch and ground infrastructure, Prime Minister Mark Carney and French President Emmanuel Macron said Sunday — a push that already includes a new contract for the French firm Aldoria to supply Canada's military with space-surveillance data.

A new Progress cargo ship lifted off for the International Space Station this week, while the four astronauts assigned to the next crew rotation, including Canada's Joshua Kutryk, began the final quarantine before their own flight.

Prime Minister Mark Carney listed space alongside artificial intelligence, quantum computing and critical minerals among the strengths Canada brings to a proposed deeper partnership with the European Union (EU), in an address to the European Parliament during a two-day visit to Strasbourg, France, that concluded Thursday.

Orange has switched on the first European ground gateway for Telesat Lightspeed the two companies said Thursday.

The Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) named space for the first time in a Defence Platform release, as it detailed Tuesday how $1 billion will move into two investment vehicles under the $6-billion program.

MDA Space unveiled a three-tier software portfolio Wednesday that lets customers search its Earth observation archive, schedule new satellite imagery and, at the top tier, pull the data straight into their own ground stations.

The space sector is no longer a niche domain. According to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the global space economy approached $600 billion USD in 2025.

elesat signed a global framework agreement with SatPort Infrastructure, the companies said Tuesday, that lets the Ottawa satellite operator commission landing stations for its Lightspeed broadband network anywhere in the world.

Canadensys Aerospace Corp. is supporting Growcer Inc., a modular food infrastructure company, on a study to design a deployable Controlled Environment Agriculture unit for Canada's high Arctic.

Today was to have been Lisa Campbell's last official day as outgoing president of the Canadian Space Agency (CSA). However, Jean-Claude Piedboeuf was appointed acting president in July, meaning Campbell left weeks early.

Maverick Space Systems has secured launch capacity for 10 Kepler Communications satellites aboard Portal Space Systems' Motus Via Sol mission, the companies said Monday. The satellites, part of Kepler's 400-kilogram-class Tranche 2 line, are due to launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in mid-2028.

Edmonton headquartered Wyvern says the $230 million attached to its Canada Investment Summit pitch is a full-program estimate, the entire cost of taking its satellite-imaging project from integration through commercial service, and confirms the figure hadn’t appeared in any earlier funding announcement.

Maritime Launch Services Inc (MLS) and Isar Aerospace have finalized the statement of work and programmatic milestones for a dedicated launch complex at Spaceport Nova Scotia. This shifts the agreement out of the planning phase and directly into execution.

The federal government is asking global investors to help finance four Canadian space-sector projects as part of the Canada Investment Summit that opened in Toronto on Monday. One company though has a CapEx figure we haven't see publicly yet which is of interest.

A Russian Progress cargo ship undocked from the International Space Station on Sept. 8, wrapping up a resupply run that began when it launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in March 2026 carrying about three tons of food, fuel and supplies for the station's crew. Progress 94 backed away from the station's Poisk module at 11:18 a.m. EDT and, according to a NASA mission update, burned up in a planned, destructive re-entry over the South Pacific later that day.

Eight of nine tracked companies rose as Telesat cleared an antenna milestone and Isar Aerospace, a future Spaceport Nova Scotia tenant, reached orbit for the first time.

he Canadian government is moving to de-risk domestic quantum hardware supply chains by procuring $1.5 million in cryogenic amplifier technology from Qubic. The agreement is facilitated through the Innovation Solutions Canada (ISC) Testing Stream, and targets thermal bottlenecks that currently restrict the deployment of advanced RF sensors and scalable quantum computers.

MDA Space has launched a defence-focused variant of its software-defined satellite platform to capture a larger share of the global military communications market. The new MDA Aurora Black product line introduces enhanced cyber and physical security features designed specifically for contested space-based operations and multi-domain defence architecture.

Halifax-based Galaxia has closed an oversubscribed $4.5 million CAD Seed funding round to manufacture satellite hardware and orbital computing payloads.

The Weekly Close is SpaceQ’s new weekly column on the public space economy published every Friday on the Canadian and U.S. companies, contracts and capital moving the sector. Each issue tracks the SpaceQ Canadian Space Index alongside sector benchmarks, the week’s biggest movers and a look at what’s coming up next week.

Canadian Strategic Missions Corporation (CSMC) has unveiled a restructured technology portfolio, introducing three nuclear reactor platforms aimed at defence, space and research applications. The technology platform update is part of a pivot the company began implementing in December 2025, when it moved away from space mining to broader technology development, looking for something nearer term it could build on.