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The 2018 State of the Canadian Space Sector, the latest in a series of annual compilations of Canada's space capabilities produced by the economic analysis and research team at the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), is now online. Although it was released on Thursday April 4th, 2019, it's officially a 2018 report using data collected in 2017.
The latest report continues to note a long-term pattern of declining domestic sales of Canadian space focused products while international sales of the sames products increase...
After a month of anticipation, we still don't know much about the new $150Mln Canadian Space Agency (CSA) Lunar Exploration Accelerator Program (LEAP), which is intended to assist small, space focused businesses and distract from the larger 1.95Bln CDN the government has pledged to support the US led Lunar Gateway.
There seems to be no Federal government website set up to explain the program and formal inquiries to the CSA from this blog have, so far at least, not led to any "
on the record" clarifications.
Off the record, "
knowledgeable sources" have indicated that the program is "
not budget dependent" which could mean that funding is not available this year, or it could mean that the funding will be pulled from other Federal programs and isn't really new funding.
