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
Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
FY 2013-2014
Canada

Measurement of the ionospheric absorption of radio waves using riometers and imaging riometers.

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 effects of long duration spaceflight on human wayfinding: the behavioural and neural mechanisms (Wayfinding) In space, without the cues provided by Earth's gravity, astronauts' bodies and brains...

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 objective of this project is to support the development of K-Band up/down converters (UDC) in the first phase followed by a second phase where the converters will be integrated into a single packa...

Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
FY 2019-2020
Canada

The availability of high-speed Internet, including in the underserved areas of Canada's northern and rural regions, will be greatly improved with proposed Low Earth Orbit (LEO) communications satellit...

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 purpose of this contribution is to provide one additional year of support to the operations of the BRITE (BRight Target Explorer) nanosatellite launched in 2014. BRITE is a unique small space tel...

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

Space agencies, research institutes and private organizations are looking for commercial landing services in order to reach sites of interest on the Moon. Because of their poorly known local topograph...

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

(20STDPK39) The geosynchronous global satellite industry is evolving a new generation of satellites to address needs of new satellite services including local-channel direct broadcast, high capacity K...

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 collect measurements of the trace gases, aerosol particles and clouds present in the atmosphere over Eureka, Nunavut (80N, 86W) in 2025-2027 using instruments based at the Polar Envi...

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 scientific instruments on the CASSIOPE satellite each have unique and innovative measurement capabilities, for observing space weather in the upper atmosphere at unprecedented resolution. They hav...

Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
FY 2015-2016
Canada

The objective of the research is to understand the process of rehabilitation after sixty days of bed-rest including the marrow reconditioning of the hemopoietically active lumbar vertebrae.

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 conclusion of this project (“Percolating Reactive Waves in Particulate Suspensions”) is expected to be unambiguous experimental verification of a new regime of reactive wave propagation dominated...

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 proposed project aims to develop and harden light readout technologies required for radiation spectrometers for exploration-class space missions to the Moon and beyond. Bubble Technology Industrie...

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 development of small launch vehicles and modern spacecraft requires manufacturing ultra light-weight tanks to support ever-increasing performance requirements. Additionally, expanding commercializ...

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

This project will draw upon Canada's leading researchers in mechanical dynamics and computer graphics and will add significant capabilities to existing software for mechatronic systems simulation. Th...

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

(20STDPK22) The ability for robots to autonomously make their decisions with minimal supervisions by human users and, in some cases, no supervision at all, is critical to the success of future deep sp...

Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
Contributions under the Cooperation Agreement between the Government of Canada and the European Space Agency (ESA)
FY 2019-2020
France

The European Earth Watch Programme is an optional program of the European Space Agency (ESA). The contribution has been awarded for the Arctic Weather Satellite element of the programme, which is aime...

Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
FY 2012-2013
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 2018-2019
Canada

This grant is to provide support to the science team responsible for an investigation to be made about exoplanets to be observed as part of a Guaranteed Time Observation (GTO) program allocated to Can...

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

CAUSAL ANALYSIS OF CARDIORESPIRATORY COUPLING ON THE ISS Astronauts face many challenges (space walks) due to the harsh space environment. Proper functioning of heart, lungs, and circulation is requi...

COM DEV Ltd. $600,000.00
Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
FY 2014-2015
Canada

This project entitled ""Flexible Space Situational Awareness Payload Development"" will demonstrate paradigm-changing technologies relating to the viewing, understanding and predicting the physical lo...

COM DEV Ltd. $600,000.00
Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
FY 2014-2015
Canada

This project entitled ""Dyson Spectrometer Prototype Development"" will develop an innovative prototype spectrometer for microsatellite based, hyperspectral imaging applications, that will be able to...

COM DEV Ltd. $600,000.00
Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
FY 2014-2015
Canada

This project entitled ""Micro-Spectrometer for Atmospheric Remote Sensing"" will develop a compact spectrometer for the measurement of Green House Gas (GHG) species in the atmosphere. The project wil...

Gedex Inc. $600,000.00
Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
FY 2014-2015
Canada

This project entitled ""Vector Gravimeter for Asteroids (VEGA) Prototype Instrument Development and Flight Test"" is to develop and test-fly an instrument that could explore the surface of asteroids –...

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 ""Next Generation TriDAR"" will focus on the creation of a next-generation TriDAR platform. TriDAR is a 3D sensor used to perform autonomous rendezvous and docking in space. This...

Optech Inc. $600,000.00
Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
FY 2014-2015
Canada

This project entitled ""Scanning Flash Lidar System"" will focus on developing a prototype which combines new LiDAR technology and a scanning mirror mechanism. This system will provide a range of info...