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 Lunar Vertex payload will be delivered to the Moon to study the Reiner Gamma lunar swirl, a bright, unusual marking, collocated with a magnetic anomaly, both of unknown origin. Our main objective...
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
This project will support the 2016 ExoMars TGO/CaSSIS mission operations and science. Science investigations under the Impact Cratering and Composition & Photometry science theme groups are emphasized...
Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
FY 2025-2026
Canada
Extended exposure to the isolated and extreme conditions at the Concordia station may induce mental fatigue, a state associated with mood disturbances, safety concerns, and work errors. The BREEZE-pro...
Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
FY 2025-2026
Canada
Rock chemistries and micro-textures resolvable by the Planetary Instrument for X-ray Lithochemistry (PIXL) instrument onboard the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover allow integrated rock histories to be res...
Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
FY 2025-2026
Canada
NASA's Pandora mission is a pioneering astrophysics project designed to study the atmospheres of at least 20 exoplanets and their host stars. Selected as part of NASA's inaugural call for Pioneer miss...
Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
FY 2018-2019
Canada
Title: Urban Monitoring Change Detection for Multi-sensor Satellite
Imagery.
This project aims to deliver a change detection framework using RADARSAT-2 SAR and EO imagery with applications to urb...
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
Astronauts lose substantial amounts of bone during space missions. Abnormalities in the way the body handles phosphate
has been linked to bone loss on Earth. Astronauts on the International Space Sta...
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
DISTURBED FLUID DRAINAGE AROUND EYE - AN IMPORTANT MISSING PIECE IN THE PUZZLE OF VISION LOSS IN ASTRONAUTS?
Vision loss due to Space Associated Neuro-Ocular Syndrome (SANS) is observed in many astro...
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 objective of this research is to develop a forecast model for the probability of scintillation occurrence in GNSS signals over the Canadian Arctic with a high temporal and spatial resolution durin...
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: Mapping of agricultural soils by Earth observation big data mining (ScanSol). ScanSol aims to create new opportunities for mining large quantities of images acquired via the different Earth obs...
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
A Remote Sensing Virtual Machine incorporating multiple space-based data and M2M connections in a cloud-compatible environment
Kepler has evolved monitoring techniques which use satellite radar dat...
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: Utilization of Multi Radar Data Sets with Advanced Data Fusion Techniques. Exploitation of RADAR data sets using InSAR technology to measure heave and subsidence has been proven but frequency a...
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
Novel Early Season Crop Type Classifier by Improved Utilization of Multi-frequency PolSAR and Electro-optical Data
A.U.G. Signals Ltd. will utilize multi EO satellite data, including RADARSAT, to p...
Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
FY 2025-2026
Canada
Recent findings suggest that the venous thromboembolisms (VTE) may occur during spaceflight. Jugular vein thrombosis is rarely reported on Earth, but is associated with relatively poor outcomes. There...
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
Yeast is an ideal model system for space biosciences research because they can be maintained in a dry desiccated state for
prolonged periods of time without the need for water or nutrients. However,...
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
Space’s low gravity leads to bone and muscle loss which can compromise astronauts’ missions. Previous work showed that the knee cartilage of mice breakdown after a period in space’s low gravity. But l...
Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
FY 2018-2019
Canada
This project aims to develop a dynamic assimilation approach of RADARSAT-2 data acquired at various growth stages of corn crop into the STICS growth model. This is meant to improve yield predictions a...
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
Dr. Cloutis has been involved in the NASA Mars Perseverance Rover mission since 2013, as a Co-Investigator on the Mastcam-Z
Science Team (and as a Collaborator on the SuperCam Science Team). Mastcam-...
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
Geomagnetic disturbances pose a continuing threat to Canada’s technological infrastructure; understanding and modeling these disturbances is a crucial step to mitigating this threat. This proposal fil...
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
This project aims to translate a hibernation-related mechanism of muscle atrophy resistance to astronauts. The microgravity conditions of space invariably lead to profound loss of skeletal and cardiac...
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 at discovering new knowledge about the contribution of large-scale ultra-low frequency (ULF) waves to energy, momentum, and mass transfer in near-Earth’s space. This objective will b...
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
Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
FY 2023-2024
Canada
Our entire technological civilization is based on the discovery by Michael Faraday in the 1830s that a changing magnetic field can generate electricity. Our finely tuned electric generation networks d...
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 ""Q7 Camera Boards"" aims to leverage the company's miniaturized data-processing technology with a versatile camera interface board for the new Q7 processor card. It will address...
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
CSA SMUG - SELF-MOTION UNDER GRAVITY
When humans move from the normal constant one gravity environment found on earth a range of different perceptual systems must operate under unusual conditions re...