Sentences with phrase «canadian space agency»

The Canadian Space Agency is conducting a national astronaut recruitment campaign at the end of May 2008 to select astronauts to join its Canadian Astronaut Corps.

And Canadian start - up Hexoskin doesn't disappoint with its newly released smart shirt, which employs textile sensors developed with the help of NASA and the Canadian Space Agency to help get you fit.

The Canadian Space Agency maintains the AuroraMax Project, which features a web cam pointed at the Yellowknife sky — after dusk, natch.

Photo: Canadian Space Agency

Join Mat Kaplan and Bill Nye with their guests, Canadian space writer Elizabeth Howell, University of Western Ontario planetary scientist Gordon «Oz» Osinski, and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen.

The satellite is part of an international collaboration led by ISAS and backed by Japan's National Astronomical Observatory; NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, CA; the National Science Foundation's National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), Socorro, NM; the Canadian Space Agency; the Australia Telescope National Facility; the European VLBI Network and the Joint Institute for Very Long Baseline Interferometry in Europe.

Formerly known as the «Next Generation Space Telescope,» the JWST is slated to launch in 2013 and has been an international collaboration among NASA, the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency.

Webb is an international project led by NASA with its partners, the European Space Agency (ESA) and Canadian Space Agency (CSA).

It is part of an international collaboration led by ISAS and backed by NRAO; Japan's National Astronomical Observatory; NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL); the Canadian Space Agency; the Australia Telescope National Facility; the European VLBI Network and the Joint Institute for Very Long Baseline Interferometry in Europe.

JWST is a cooperative program among NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA).

The Canadian Space Agency has also delivered its instrument: the Fine Guidance Sensor / Near InfraRed Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (FGS / NIRISS) that will also take high - quality images of other bodies in space.

Since I am a planetary scientist in my other life, I end up in Montréal from time to time at the nearby headquarters of the Canadian Space Agency.

The Canadian Space Agency (CSA), who is also collaborating on TGO, is funding and supporting Tornabene's involvement in the mission.

In 1998, the ISS partners (Canadian Space Agency [CSA], the European Space Agency [ESA], the Italian Space Agency [ASI], the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency [JAXA], NASA, and Roscosmos) were ready to formalize their plans.

Webb is an international program led by NASA with its partners, the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA).

The research was funded by the Canada Research Chairs program, the Natural Sciences & Engineering Research Council, the Sloan Foundation Deep Carbon Observatory, the Canadian Space Agency and the National Science Foundation.

Webb is an international project led by NASA with its partners, ESA (European Space Agency) and the Canadian Space Agency.

Other research measures announced by Flaherty included $ 72.75 million for a forestry and environmental genomics competition at Genome Canada; $ 63.78 million over 5 years for the Canadian Space Agency's plan to develop the RADARSAT Constellation Mission, which proposes to generate radar images using multiple satellites; and $ 17.46 million over 5 years «to commence the pre-construction design phase» for the proposed Canadian Arctic Research Initiative.

«There's a lot of demand to use this telescope, so you have to be meticulous in choosing which exoplanets to look at,» says René Doyon, a co-author on the paper who is also the principal investigator for NIRISS, the Canadian Space Agency instrument on board JWST.

The main satellites used included WorldView 1, 2, and 3 from DigitalGlobe, Landsat 7 and 8 from NASA and USGS, Earth Observer - 1 from NASA, ASTER onboard the Terra satellite from NASA and JAXA, Gaofen - 1 from the China National Space Administration, RADARSAT - 2 from the Canadian Space Agency and MDA, and ALOS - 2 from JAXA.

«If we can predict these events with some certainty, hopefully more than minutes, maybe hours before they occur, we collectively can take remedial action,» says David Kendall of the Canadian Space Agency, which is funding the ground - based observation network.

Beginning next year Sune Toft and his colleagues will gain access to equipment of hitherto unknown strength and precision when ESA, European Space Agency, CSA, Canadian Space Agency and NASA, the US space organization, put James Webb Space Telescope into orbit 1,5 million km from Earth.

Working with the Canadian Space Agency, GHGSat spent three years designing a satellite whose lightweight imaging spectrometer can focus on an area as small as 164 square feet.

«From the heights of the space station, to the hospitals here on Earth, we are excited that this space technology is making its way to better the lives of our families,» said Gilles Leclerc, director general of Space Exploration at the Canadian Space Agency.

The Canadian Space Agency lists all the universities across the nation that have robotics engineering programs.

To develop KidsArm, SickKids partnered with MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA), the Canadian company that was behind the space shuttle's robotic arm and built the robotic system aboard the space station for the Canadian Space Agency (CSA).

Webb is an international project led by NASA with its partners, the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency.

The Canadian Space Agency (CSA), meanwhile, has partnered with the American, European, and Japanese space agencies, providing technology and science packages for planetary and space - telescope missions.

Working at the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) in St.Hubert, Quebec, she is in charge of developing and coordinating the overall Canadian - part of the Phoenix project.

«The Canadian Space Agency will engage with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to define the terms of this continued participation,» the budget explains.

In its latest project, the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) is collaborating with NASA on its next Mars lander, called Phoenix, scheduled for launch in 2007.

Stay tuned for a follow - up article next week, when Next Wave interviews Dr. Alain Berinstain, Head of the Mars Exploration program at the Canadian Space Agency

After completing her degree she went off and started a Masters in Aerospace Engineering at University of Laval where, in 1997, she did an internship at the Canadian Space Agency.

Before joining Sun Life in 2010, Hudon was president of Marketel, a major advertising agency in Montreal, worked as president and CEO of the Board of Trade of Metropolitan Montreal and had stints with Bell Global Solutions, the Canadian Space Agency and BCE Media.

Now retired from the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), he recently published his first children's book, The Darkest Dark, about his own fear of the dark as a kid.

The Canadian Space Agency, for its part, also has a mandate to transfer its research and breakthroughs back to Canada and society in general.

But 30 years after the arm was developed, at the cost of $ 180 million, Canada's specialty in space prosthetics continues, with Canadarm2 and Dextre (a «robotic handyman,» in Canadian Space Agency parlance) on the International Space Station.

But Thirsk's career headed skyward in 1983, when the Canadian Space Agency recruited him as one of its first six astronauts.

Built in cooperation with the European and Canadian space agencies, Webb is NASA's biggest, costliest and most powerful observatory yet, boasting a 6.5 - meter primary mirror that will be the largest ever flown in space.

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In addition to carrying payloads from several Indian labs, the 525 kilogram spacecraft will contain instruments from the Canadian and European space agencies.

More than a dozen countries from the U.S., Canadian, and European space agencies are involved in Webb's development and construction.

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), U.S. — European Space Agency — Canadian satellite observatory proposed as the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and scheduled to be launched by an Ariane 5 rocket in 2020 at the earliest.

This partnership permits the Canadian Space Operations Centre to coordinate and share unclassified information and data in support of government agencies.»

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