Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
EF 2022-2023
Canada
Applicants with a design for a remote healthcare technology concept were invited to apply to the Challenge. After competing in Stage 2 of the Challenge as a semi-finalist, the recipient was selected a...
Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
EF 2024-2025
Canada
This project involves building a very realistic simulator tool to generate the most accurate imagery possible. This imagery will be used to improve, train, and test advanced computer vision algorithms...
Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
EF 2024-2025
Canada
EMCCD imaging technology stands apart from competing technologies with its ability to efficiently count photons. Its closest competitor is CMOS technology which is attracting more and more interest. T...
Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
EF 2024-2025
Canada
Lasers are frequently used to measure displacement. We have developed a novel frequency-modulated laser interferometer (SFM) capable of measuring up to 8 independent axes using a single laser/detector...
Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
Class Grant and Contribution Program toSupport Research, Awareness and Learningin Space Science and Technology
EF 2025-2026
Canada
Space weather—solar storms and geomagnetic disturbances—poses a major risk to satellites, GPS, communications, and power grids, yet current forecasts lack the accuracy and real-time updates needed for...
Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
EF 2022-2023
Canada
With Canada's Arctic regions experiencing the effects of climate change faster than the rest of the country, northern Inuit and Indigenous communities require assistance. Traditional travel and huntin...
Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
EF 2024-2025
Canada
The expected deliverables for this project are:
a. A completely redesigned optical and mechanical front-end
b. An engineering model QRx-35 to be used for functional and performance testing purposes...
Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
EF 2024-2025
Canada
The magnetic field is a ubiquitous resource that is essential to navigation and resource exploration, both on Earth and in space. One of the main challenges of magnetic sensing in space environments i...
Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
EF 2022-2023
Canada
This project’s purpose is to educate, train and actively engage as many students (college, bachelors, masters and doctorate) as possible in STEM and in particular, space technology and science. The m...
Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
EF 2022-2023
Canada
This project proposes the development of an end-to-end “design, build, test and launch” 3U-CubeSat for monitoring climate change, and the associated engineering challenges to design and integrate scie...
Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
Class Grant and Contribution Program toSupport Research, Awareness and Learningin Space Science and Technology
EF 2025-2026
Canada
Scalium™ is an innovative, ultra-resistant aluminum-scandium alloy, originally developed by Ferreol Technologies for the alpine skiing industry. With exceptional mechanical properties, Scalium™ curren...
Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
EF 2022-2023
Canada
The AlbertaSat team from University of Alberta will build off of an existing satellite bus to further improve student designed components and dedicate more resources to improving the payload interface...
Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
EF 2011-2012
Canada
Evaluation of the Environment Canada Carbon Assimilation System (EC-CAS)
Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
EF 2020-2021
Canada
Remote sensing of surface pressure and aerosol information are both relevant to a better climate understanding. In the project context of “Development and Validation of a Miniature Imaging Fabry-Perot...
Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
EF 2020-2021
Canada
To improve water resource management in
places that rely on snowmelt, there is a
need for high spatial resolution
observations that are accurate. Radar
observations of snow are sensitive to sn...
Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
EF 2021-2022
Canada
Government authorities and data scientists do not have the ability to directly request ground truth observations from citizens to assess the validity of space-based Earth observation (SBEO) algorithms...
Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
EF 2022-2023
Canada
The to-be-measured physical properties of asteroid Bennu's rocks - their strength, elasticity, seismic velocities, and
thermal conductivity - constrain aspects of its current geology and how it respo...
Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
EF 2020-2021
Canada
The command and data handling (C&DH) subsystem is the “control center” of a satellite that receives commands from the communications subsystem, performs command decoding and validation, and distribute...
Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
EF 2025-2026
Canada
With the announcement by the Canadian Government in 2023 that it is moving forward to enable space launches from Canadian soil, Canada is poised to expand its capabilities into launch and large-scale...
Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
Contributions under the Canada/European Space Agency (ESA) Cooperation Agreement
EF 2012-2013
France
GMES Space Component Programme (Global Monitoring for Environment and Security/ Surveillance mondiale pour l'environnement et la s‚curit‚). The following contribution has been awarded under the Europe...
Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
EF 2021-2022
Canada
Spacecraft in the weightless environment rely on fuel tanks to contain the fluid mixtures for propulsion. In weightlessness, this fluid reorients to minimize its thermodynamic energy and can take on u...
Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
EF 2016-2017
Canada
The project is entitled 'Small scale plasma irregularities and magnetosphere-ionosphere-thermosphere coupling in the high latitude regions'. The project team will investigate disturbances in the upper...
Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
EF 2016-2017
Canada
The project is entitled 'Suprathermal electrons in the geospace environment and their effects on the upper atmosphere'. Using data from six Canadian space instruments, together with auroral observatio...
Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
EF 2016-2017
Canada
The project is entitled « Optical field line resonances: auroral properties and calibration of Swarm EFI ». The project team will use data from ground-based instrument arrays and from Europe's Swarm s...
Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
EF 2017-2018
Canada
Western University in partnership with Nunavut Arctic College's CubeSat will conduct a flight-test with a novel imaging system for engineering technology demonstration with the potential to provide vi...