NorthStar Earth & Space Inc.
$995,062.00 CAD
≈ 13 Canadians' average pay for a year
- Department
- Canadian Space Agency
- Recipient country
- Canada
- Fiscal year
- 2025-2026
- Agreement period
- September 3, 2025 – August 31, 2027
- Reference
- csa-asc:003-2025-2026-Q2-00014
Published purpose
NorthStar will advance the critical capability to identify hundreds of thousands of unknown space objects by processing millions of space-based optical observations per day. Achieving this to commercial standards requires innovative adaptations of Initial Orbit Determination algorithms and massively parallel data processing pipeline methods configured in novel architectures. This project will adapt new Big Data methods to process unknown objects with a system that will scale appropriately as the NorthStar constellation expands, while still meeting latency and security requirements.
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