Federal spending by Canadian Space Agency

1,614 records totalling $1,580,590,589.19 CAD, from official Government of Canada open data.

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Where the money flows

Planned vs. actual spending

What Parliament authorised this organization to spend versus what it actually spent, across all its votes. Source: Public Accounts of Canada (via GC InfoBase). This covers the organization's entire budget, not just the grants and contracts listed below.

Fiscal year Authorised Spent Used
2024-2025 $741,978,670 $634,726,541 85.5%
2023-2024 $629,892,502 $450,747,209 71.6%
2022-2023 $615,431,241 $498,235,495 81.0%
2021-2022 $491,550,506 $368,108,149 74.9%
2020-2021 $451,451,551 $330,409,653 73.2%
2019-2020 $441,838,138 $324,436,091 73.4%
2018-2019 $421,138,439 $305,745,600 72.6%
2017-2018 $421,006,569 $353,457,987 84.0%
2016-2017 $459,348,646 $388,298,278 84.5%
2015-2016 $501,568,928 $412,799,058 82.3%

Did it deliver? (2024-2025 results report)

Every department sets measurable performance targets and reports against them. Source: Departmental Results Reports via GC InfoBase — the department's own self-reported scorecard.

7

of 9 targets met

2

targets not met

0

not yet measurable or unavailable

See missed targets
  • Number of services offered to Canadians dependent on space data

    Target: — · Actual: 101.0

  • Number of space missions with Canadian Astronauts and/or Canadian content enabled by SEP.

    Target: — · Actual: 14.0

Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
FY 2018-2019
Canada

When rovers explore other planets or celestial objects such as the Moon to collect scientific data, they are programmed to find rocks and other materials based on basic features like shape and texture...

Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
FY 2017-2018
Canada

Radiation prediction, monitoring, and protection technologies are a key part of all space missions. The construction of radiation detectors for long-duration exploration missions presents particular c...

Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
FY 2009-2010
Canada

The Research Component of the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) Class Grant and Contribution Program to support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology provides financial support to...

Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
FY 2018-2019
Canada

Automated Land Cover Toolbox (ALTbox): This project will create software tools that will automate and expedite the processing and analysis of multi-sensor datasets, acquired from RADARSAT-2 and sever...

Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
FY 2018-2019
Canada

This project will develop new algorithms for estimating crop biophysical variables using RADARSAT-2 quad-pol data, combined with data from optical satellite Venµs and an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)

Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
FY 2018-2019
Canada

Multisensor Value-Added Products and Services from Satellite Temporal Series Analysis (MUSES) The MUSES project is aimed at providing institutional users with powerful processing chains capable of ma...

Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
FY 2018-2019
Canada

This grant is to fund oceanographic research for Canada's contribution to the NASA SWOT Mission. The objectives are: to characterize and catalog contributions to sea surface height, assess how represe...

Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
FY 2017-2018
Canada

RADARSAT M2M Cloud Platform The project intends to provide cloud-based processing for RADARSAT-2 and RCM via the SkyWatch platform to enable machine to machine integration. The service will facilit...

Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
FY 2014-2015
Canada

This project entitled "" Satellite Ocean Colour Radiometry: International Coordination "" has the objectives to support the operations of the International Ocean Colour Coordination Committee (OCCG) P...

Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
Contributions under the Canada/European Space Agency (ESA) Cooperation Agreement
FY 2014-2015
France

General Support Technology Program (GSTP): The following contribution has been awarded under the European Space Agency (ESA) Contribution Program pursuant the Cooperation Agreement signed between the...

MDA Systems Ltd. $150,000.00
Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
FY 2017-2018
Canada

Title: Behaviour Analytics from Multi Earth Observation Satellite Data. The project aims to generate higher-level fusion results that characterize the behaviours of objects. This represents informatio...

Polytechnique $150,000.00
Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
FY 2011-2012
Canada

The Research component of the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) Class Grant and Contribution Program to support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology provides financial support to...

Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
FY 2017-2018
Canada

CAMDAS Earth Observation Data Exploitation Tool Development SSCL, along with its project partners Maerospace Corporation, 4DM, and Planet is conducting research to validate a concept for an advance...

Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
FY 2011-2012
Canada

Experimental Investigation and Numerical Simulation of the Onset of Oscillatory Marangoni Convection involving free surface Oscillation of a High Prandtl Number Liquid Bridge, Masahiro Kawaji, Univers...

Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
FY 2017-2018
Canada

This project aims to study and understand the evolution of soil moisture in the root zone and the phenology of vegetation in agricultural areas by combining SAR data with a hydro-agricultural model (S...

Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
FY 2017-2018
Canada

The overarching goal of this study is to improve crop type identification and biophysical parameters estimation in Canada by integrating RADARSAT-2 and other sources of data with ecosystem modelling.

Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
FY 2016-2017
Canada

The project aims to assess the potential of Earth observation data, particularly radar, in the field of urban public health and to train graduate students in this field of application.

Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
FY 2020-2021
Canada

Following the Announcement of Opportunity published on Dec. 18, 2020, the CSA is providing funding via a Grant Agreement to the university to allow one of its scientists to participate in the 2022 Exo...

Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
FY 2020-2021
Canada

Following the Announcement of Opportunity published on Dec. 18, 2020, the CSA is providing funding via a Grant Agreement to the university to allow one of its scientists to participate in the Euclid m...

Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
FY 2019-2020
Canada

UNDERSTANDING MICROGRAVITY-INDUCED BONE LOSS THROUGH IN VIVO SIMULATED MICROGRAVITY EXPERIMENTS Following a space mission, astronauts experience severe bone thinning and increased risks of fracture w...

Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
FY 2019-2020
Canada

An Animal Model to Prevent Shoulder Injuries in Microgravity Shoulder's muscles and tendons combine their activities to provide mobility and stability when we move our arms. On Earth, shoulder muscle...

Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
FY 2019-2020
Canada

UNDERSTANDING RELATIVE CONTRIBUTIONS OF FLUID FLOW AND MECHANICAL STRAIN TO BONE ADAPTATION IN ALTERED GRAVITY. Bone loss in astronauts is a major challenge for long-duration space exploration. In we...

Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
FY 2021-2022
Canada

KorrAI Technologies is combining Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) with cloud computing and artificial intelligence to provide an efficient framework to automatically detect changes in...

Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
FY 2021-2022
Canada

The project aims to build a method to systemically and methodically quantify the Carbon dioxide (CO2) level present at ground-elevation using hyperspectral data. Hyperspectral data captures the entire...

Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
FY 2022-2023
Canada

Mission Co-Investigators (Co-Is) are selected to broaden the scientific expertise of the team, and to facilitate mission success by providing aid with addressing the mission goals. Through his 20 yea...