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NASA updates Moon Base CLPS program as Canada weighs Canadarm3’s future 🌕🚀

NASA has picked eight companies to compete for a decade of lunar cargo deliveries under CLPS 2, which has a $US 10 billion ceiling. It also ordered PROMISE, a nuclear-powered rover headed for the lunar South Pole in late 2028. ☢️🛞

🇨🇦 How does Canada fit in? Canada has committed $1.68 billion to date to the Gateway / Canadarm3 program.

Read more on SpaceQ 👇
https://t.co/VW9FLnPPWR

#NASA #Moon #CLPS #Canadarm3 #CanadianSpace #SpaceQ

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Weekly ISS update: Kutryk’s second spacewalk adds final array 🛰️

🇨🇦 CSA astronaut Joshua Kutryk and NASA’s Anil Menon installed the ISS’s eighth and final new solar array on Nov. 5. That completes a power upgrade that began in 2021.
⚡ The new arrays raise station power capacity by about 30 per cent, to about 215 kW.
🧑‍🚀 Kutryk’s two spacewalks now total about 14 hours, just short of Dave Williams’ Canadian record.
🔭 Next up: Canadarm2 will berth Cygnus, and an AMS repair spacewalk is planned for January.

Full update 👇
https://t.co/4Cuppk2ENG

#ISS #CanadianSpaceAgency #Spacewalk #Canadarm2 #SpaceQ

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5N Plus carries the Canadian space index through a Thursday sell-off 📈🛰️

It was a bumpy week for Canada’s public space companies, but the SpaceQ Canadian Space Index still finished up 2.7% at 95.59. The S&P/TSX Composite gained 0.5%. 🇨🇦

🔋 5N Plus led the board. The Montreal company’s Q3 revenue rose 30% to US$136.4M, and it now expects to hit the high end of its adjusted EBITDA guidance. The shares jumped 24.7% on Tuesday and ended the week up 29.3% at $33.53. That gain was bigger than the index’s entire rise for the week. Its space link is AZUR SPACE, which makes solar cells for satellites. ☀️

🤖 MDA Space raised its 2026 revenue forecast to $1.90B–$1.95B after Q3 revenue grew 22% to $498M. The stock finished the week up 5.7% at $40.16.

📉 On Thursday the S&P 500 dropped 4.4% and the index lost 3.4%. It made all of that back on Friday. 🔄

Read the full Weekly Close, with the complete board, on SpaceQ 👇
https://t.co/EuliOuEvl9

#SpaceEconomy #CanadianSpace #SpaceIndustry #TSX #Investing #5NPlus #MDASpace #SpaceQ

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LUNR Aerospace goes public before its first engine test 🚀

Toronto launch startup LUNR listed on the CSE on Oct. 27 (FLY) before it has fired an engine. 🇨🇦

🔥 First hot-fire test planned by February
💰 About $4.8M raised privately, with no new money raised at listing
📈 Valued at about $87M on thin trading, nearly 6x its target
🛰️ Aiming for orbit by 2029 with an Electron-class rocket

Full story 👇
https://t.co/scX6kSzOaJ

#CanadianSpace #NewSpace #SpaceIndustry #SpaceQ #LaunchTheNorth

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🚀 CSA awards ABB $1.5 million to develop a Mars methane detector

The Canadian Space Agency has awarded Quebec City-based ABB Inc. a contract worth about $1.5 million to further develop MAGE-ICOS, an instrument that could detect trace amounts of methane directly in the Martian atmosphere. 🔴

Read more on SpaceQ 👇
https://t.co/Fh07TyMEPg

#CanadianSpaceAgency #Mars #SpaceExploration #PlanetaryScience #CanadaInSpace #ABB #SpaceQ

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Mitsubishi Electric, MUFG Bank invest in GHGSat 🛰️💰

Mitsubishi Electric, MUFG Bank and London's Climate Investment have bought convertible notes from Montreal's GHGSat 🇨🇦 The amount wasn't disclosed.

🔭 The money is tied to a methane-tracking service built around GOSAT-GW, a Japanese government satellite 🇯🇵 that scans wide areas for greenhouse gases.

Read the full story on SpaceQ 👇
https://t.co/7YINXUZ5ob

#GHGSat #Methane #EarthObservation #SpaceIndustry #ClimateTech #Satellites #Canada #Japan #SpaceQ

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🚀 20 Canadian space companies head to Space Tech Expo Europe

🇨🇦 Twenty Canadian space companies and organizations are heading to Bremen, Germany, Nov. 17-19, to show their technology to European buyers and partners at Space Tech Expo Europe. That’s eight more than last year’s delegation.

🇩🇪 The trip comes as Canada draws closer to Germany and Norway. Ottawa picked TKMS to build up to 12 submarines, and Isar Aerospace signed on to build its own launch pad at Spaceport Nova Scotia.

📍 It’s also the show’s last year in Bremen before it moves to Frankfurt in 2027.

👉 The full list of companies is on SpaceQ: https://t.co/RZX7x0bQUO

#SpaceTechExpo #Canada #SpaceIndustry #Bremen #SpaceQ

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Budget 2026 moves forward with medium-lift rockets 🚀🇨🇦

Ottawa wants Canadian medium-lift rockets, and Budget 2026 confirms it as a formal goal. 🎯 National Defence will manage dedicated launch and test facilities, and DND’s Launch the North program moves from light-lift to medium-lift launch vehicles and “a national rocket propulsion ecosystem.” 🔥

Read the full story on SpaceQ 👇
https://t.co/71HGiOdfxn

#Budget2026 #SpaceQ #CanadianSpace #SovereignLaunch #LaunchTheNorth #CSA #DefenceIndustrialStrategy #NewSpace

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📈 Voyager Technologies Q3 2026 results: core business lifts forecast

Voyager raised the bottom of its 2026 sales forecast by US$10 million, to $285 million. This time the increase didn’t come from Astrobotic, the lunar lander business it bought in July.

👇
https://t.co/1o5aN2VMSO
#SpaceEconomy #Earnings #Starlab #SpaceQ

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MDA Space Q3 2026: no slowdown yet, forecast rises 🛰️ 🇨🇦

📈 MDA Space raised its 2026 revenue forecast after a better-than-expected third quarter brought in $498 million, up 22 per cent. It now expects $1.90 billion to $1.95 billion this year, roughly 18 per cent growth.

Get the full results here:
https://t.co/K3YxrTOyAG

#SpaceQ #MDASpace #SpaceIndustry #Earnings

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GHGSat, TACTIQL among Deloitte Technology Fast 50 winners 🏆

🛰️ Montreal's GHGSat has made Deloitte Canada's Technology Fast 50 for a fourth consecutive year, placing 50th with four-year revenue growth of 410 per cent. The methane-monitoring company added four satellites to its fleet over the past year.

🛡️ Ottawa's TACTIQL, a veteran-owned defence software company and a founding partner in Calian's Northstar Defence Lab, ranked second in Deloitte's Companies-to-Watch category with three-year growth of 4,395 per cent.

📈 Read the full story on SpaceQ:
https://t.co/D7gdijf2dg

#GHGSat #TACTIQL #Deloitte #Fast50 #CanadianSpace #SpaceIndustry #Defence #Methane #SpaceQ

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🚀 Alex MacDonald appointed Canadian Space Agency president

Industry Minister Mélanie Joly announced today that Alex MacDonald will be the next president of the Canadian Space Agency 🇨🇦 He succeeds Lisa Campbell, who led the agency from 2020 until July.

MacDonald was NASA’s first chief economist and spent about 17 years at the agency, helping shape its Moon to Mars strategy and the Artemis program 🌕

He has spent the past year telling Canada’s space sector it must move faster:
🤖 Pivot from Gateway to lunar surface robotics
🛰️ Build a sovereign orbital launch capability: “We all in this room, now, need to just get this done”
❄️ Seize the opening in space-based Arctic infrastructure, with faster procurement

Read our full story: 👇
https://t.co/QgDMji8owD

#CanadianSpaceAgency #CSA #SpaceCanada #NASA #Artemis #SpaceEconomy #SpaceQ

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🗳️ Midterm elections shift space power to Democrats, with stakes for Canada

🇺🇸 Democrats won both the Senate and the House on Tuesday. From January, they run the committees that write NASA's budget, set Space Force policy and oversee SpaceX. 🚀

What changes:
🏛️ Zoe Lofgren is in line to chair House Science, and Maria Cantwell to take back Senate Commerce. Susan Collins, who chairs Senate Appropriations, lost her seat.
💰 Congress has until Dec. 11 to fund NASA. The White House asked for $18.8 billion for 2027, against $24.4 billion this year.

And much more.

🇨🇦 For Canada: Kepler, Telesat and MDA Space have positioned their technology for Golden Dome, and the future of Canadarm3 depends on the Moon base NASA builds. The committees that pay for both will be led by Democrats.

Read the full story on SpaceQ 👇
https://t.co/YZreYugbyk

#Space #NASA #SpaceX #GoldenDome #Canada #Midterms2026 #SpaceQ

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🛰️ Galaxia OSPREY satellite to test moving defence data in orbit

The Halifax company's new satellite, funded by DND's Gateway to the Stars challenge, will test passing data between satellites and processing it in orbit. 📡🇨🇦

Read the full story and what the contract is valued at. 👇 https://t.co/0AZD3oYp9n

#Galaxia #CanadianSpace #DefenceInnovation #Satellites #SpaceQ

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Conservatives take Carney’s Telesat friendship to ethics watchdog ⚖️🛰️

Conservative MP Jamil Jivani has asked federal Ethics Commissioner Konrad von Finckenstein to examine whether Prime Minister Mark Carney’s friendship with Telesat CEO Dan Goldberg puts him in a conflict of interest. The request comes three months after Telesat won a $2.3-billion Arctic military communications contract. 🇨🇦❄️

📌 What’s in the story:
🔍 What Jivani is asking for, including a conflict of interest screen and a check on any recusals
👥 Evan Solomon, also a friend of Goldberg’s, already has a screen covering Telesat. Carney’s doesn’t.
📄 A $2.55-billion sole-source Telesat contract in National Defence’s own disclosures, dated four days before the award was announced
🗓️ The history of the Arctic satellite project, which dates back to 2007
💰 Contract options still to be decided and a $2.4-billion debt payment due in December
Telesat and Ottawa say the contract was awarded at arm’s length. Read the full story on SpaceQ 👇
🔗 https://t.co/59PuHraX4c

#Telesat #SpacePolicy #Defence #Arctic #CanadianSpace #Ethics #SpaceQ

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🚀 Polaris Aerospace re-emerges with Canadian launch vehicle plans

The Montreal startup, pushed out of DND’s Launch the North challenge by a court order in January, says it’s developing “scalable, ITAR-free, orbital launch vehicles.” 🇨🇦

🔥 A mass-producible liquid rocket engine is “well underway,” with a test planned this winter
🤝 Maritime Launch Services founder Stephen Matier has joined as a strategic adviser

Read the full story on SpaceQ 👇
https://t.co/btRbKlwEpy

#SpaceQ #CanadianSpace #SpaceLaunch #SovereignLaunch #Rocketry #NewSpace

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Telesat Q3 2026: Lightspeed global service slips to mid-2028 🛰️

Telesat has pushed global service on its Lightspeed constellation back three months, to the end of June 2028. The Arctic service for Canada’s military still starts on time, at the end of March 2028.

🚀 The first two satellites, which Telesat told SpaceQ last December would launch in December 2026, will now ride on another customer’s Falcon 9 no earlier than June 2027. MDA Space is still building them.

Our full breakdown of the quarter, the launch schedule and the debt 👇
https://t.co/MYpCobJirI

#SpaceQ #Telesat #Lightspeed #SpaceEconomy

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Canada-EU summit opens talks on Galileo and IRIS² access 🇨🇦🇪🇺🛰️

At their summit in Montreal, Canada and the European Union agreed to open negotiations on Canadian access to Galileo, the EU’s satellite navigation system, and to start exploratory talks on IRIS², Europe’s planned secure-communications constellation.

Read the full story on SpaceQ 👇
https://t.co/rTKZgGDcwk

#SpaceQ #Space #CanadaEU #Galileo #IRIS2 #SatelliteNavigation #SecureConnectivity #MDASpace

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🇨🇦 SpaceQ was at Canadian Space Agency headquarters in Longueuil as Joshua Kutryk stepped outside the International Space Station for the first time.

Kutryk and NASA's Anil Menon spent seven hours and 11 minutes outside the station on Thursday, installing the seventh of eight new roll-out solar arrays. It was the first spacewalk by a CSA astronaut in more than seven years.

🎙️ We also spoke with astronaut David Saint-Jacques, the last Canadian to spacewalk before Kutryk.
📺 NASA's full replay of the spacewalk is included.

Read it on SpaceQ 👇
https://t.co/emJeljK8vW

#CanadianSpaceAgency #ISS #Spacewalk #JoshuaKutryk #Canadarm2 #SpaceQ

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EarthDaily wins NASA task order to test its data against Landsat 🛰️

🇨🇦 Vancouver-based EarthDaily Analytics has landed a NASA task order worth about $4.2 million ($US 3 million). NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey will test whether its constellation’s imagery is accurate enough to use with Landsat, the U.S. government’s half-century record of Earth’s land surface. 🌍

Read the full story on SpaceQ 👇
https://t.co/031cM5dJqD

#EarthObservation #Landsat #NASA #SpaceIndustry #CanadianSpace #SpaceQ