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
Canada has committed efforts to push humanity further into the solar system beyond the International Space Station to more distant destinations like the Moon and Mars. However, travelling with the ast...
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
Reducing the risks to human health is critical for long-duration space flight. Space radiation and micro-gravity can negatively impact health, yet the combined effects of these factors remain unclear....
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
Bone loss in astronauts is a major challenge for long-duration space exploration. In weightlessness, muscles are used less often, thus providing less stimulation of bone. In addition, astronauts often...
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
Skeletal muscle atrophy is a health concern for human on Earth and for astronauts involved in space flight due to decrease in muscle size and strength which increases fatigability and frailty. The suc...
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
The Pandora Mission is low-cost space telescope designed measure the composition of distant transiting planets. The Pandora payload has the unique capability of measuring precision photometry simultan...
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
The Rosalind Franklin Rover PanCam instrument suite will be capable of identifying geological materials important for past microbial life—hydrated minerals. As a Co-I on the PanCam instrument team, Dr...
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
Everyone is familiar with beautiful images from the Hubble Space Telescope, but each of those covers only any part of the sky. The Euclid satellite, scheduled for launch in 2023, will make images of s...
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
The recent reduction in launch costs has opened up potential for cost-efficient, high-performance, rapidly-deployable low Earth orbit (LEO) constellations. StarSpec Technologies specializes in high-pr...
Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
FY 2023-2024
Canada
Mission Control proposes to demonstrate a Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) pipeline and corresponding software technology stack for deployment, characterization and improvement of Artificial Intell...
Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
FY 2023-2024
Canada
Muscle wasting occurs in consequence to pathological conditions, including aging (sarcopenia). In space, healthy astronauts experience severe wasting of the anti-gravity muscles, the muscles that are...
Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
FY 2023-2024
Canada
Following a space mission, astronauts experience severe bone thinning and increased risks of fracture when back on Earth. This bone anomaly is due to the exposure to an environment with reduced gravit...
Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
FY 2023-2024
Canada
Findings from Viking and Phoenix Mars landers have revealed the widespread presence of perchlorates in Mars regolith at concentrations that are toxic to humans and plants. The MARSCROP project will ex...
Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
FY 2023-2024
Canada
It is well-recognized that astronauts experience profound physiological changes that adversely affect the heart owing in part to the effects of changes in the normal circadian light/dark cycle. Furthe...
Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
FY 2023-2024
Canada
The biggest mysteries in physics are the accelerated expansion of the Universe caused by dark energy, and dark matter, which forms the structure in the Universe, including our own Milky Way galaxy. De...
Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
FY 2023-2024
Canada
Many upcoming missions plan to land on the Moon in the coming years. The scientific goals of these missions can be enhanced by remote sensing data of the sites, taken by instruments in lunar orbit. Th...
Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
FY 2023-2024
Canada
The recently launched Euclid Space Telescope will observe billions of galaxies across 10 billion years of Cosmic history to build a 3-dimensional map of a third of the sky. This will allow us to trace...
Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
FY 2023-2024
Canada
This project will focus on analysis of data from the CSA-supported OSIRIS instrument. We will analyze the retrieved aerosol and investigate the systematic impacts in order to understand the limitation...
Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
FY 2023-2024
Canada
Investigating the complex dynamics of space plasma and its interactions with energetic particles is essential to fully understand our Earth’s magnetosphere-ionosphere system. This research project exp...
Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
FY 2023-2024
Canada
This research is to advance understanding of the interaction of the 'atmosphere' of the Sun, which interacts with the upper 'atmosphere' (above 100 km) of the Earth. These interactions cause space wea...
Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
FY 2023-2024
Canada
The Mackenzie River Basin (MRB) in Canada’s North is one of the most important river systems in North America with competing needs of humans, ecosystems and industry. Climate change has altered temper...
Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
FY 2023-2024
Canada
This project aims to increase the technology readiness level (TRL) of the Search Coil Magnetometer (SCM) and of the high-energy particle microburst detector in order to qualify the use of both instrum...
Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
FY 2024-2025
Canada
Recent progress in the field of cosmology has been spectacular but has thrown up some big questions: we don't know what the dominant constituents of the Universe – dark matter and dark energy - are, o...
Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
FY 2024-2025
Canada
The Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Toronto is contributing the primary science camera, the U of T developed “LUVCam” to the Czech National space telescope mission...
Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
FY 2024-2025
Canada
The project will combine U-band imaging from the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) with Euclid, Subaru, and Spitzer data in the Euclid Deep Field North to produce photometric catalogs of millions...
Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
FY 2024-2025
Canada
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s Galactic Bulge Time-Domain Survey will obtain wide-field, time-series imaging to search for microlensing events of extrasolar planet systems. The proposed proje...