May 14th, 2019

Notes from the  Commercial Space  Blog 

Focused on Canadian Money Making Activities High Above the Sky.


The
Commercial Space Blog tracks  all facets of Canada's space industry.

These include the business and entrepreneur focused organizations; the educational facilities and government departments; and the activists which are either involved directly or assist indirectly to support them.

For more information on the people who subscribe to this service, check out the

To recommend news and story ideas, please contact Commercial Space blog editor

View our profile on LinkedIn Follow us on Twitter Like us on Facebook


          By Chuck Black

A design for a proposed Canadian space telescope intended to provide panoramic, high-resolution imaging in the UV/optical (0.15-0.55 µm) spectral region is being revisited by many of the same academics, scientists and engineers who contributed to the initial design.

The Cosmological Advanced Survey Telescope for Optical and ultraviolet Research (CASTOR) was the subject of a thirty five page Canadian Space Agency (CSA) position paper seven years ago, but the project has received no substantive funding since the paper was published in March 2012...

          By Brian Orlotti

On May 9th, Kent WA based Blue Origin, a private space firm company founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos-revealed at an invite-only event in Washington DC its plans to send a lunar lander named Blue Moon to the Moon's south pole.

Offering images of teeming, free-floating O'Neill space cylinders, Bezos' ambition has drawn admiration, skepticism and cynicism alike...