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Deep Space Healthcare Challenge winner: Addressing medical emergencies in space and on Earth

| Canadian Space Agency | news releases

Following a competition spanning over two years, the winner of the Deep Space Healthcare Challenge, run by the Canadian Space Agency and the Privy Council Office’s Impact Canada, has been selected. Montreal-based MD Applications will receive $500,000 in grant funding as the grand prize winner. Their EZResus solution is already helping save lives on Earth and holds great potential for diagnosis and medical emergencies in space.


Canadian technologies heading to the Moon

| Canadian Space Agency | media advisories

Earlier today, the Intuitive Machines-1 (IM-1) mission launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying Canadian technologies. IM 1, developed under the Artemis program, is headed to the Moon. If the landing is successful, these will be the first Canadian technologies to be operated on the Moon since the Apollo missions.


CSA astronaut David Saint-Jacques to give virtual presentation at Let's Talk Space Rocks

| Canadian Space Agency | media advisories

Today, Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut David Saint-Jacques and CSA mission scientist Patrick Hill will participate in a geology webinar for nearly 4,000 Canadian students in grades 9 to 12. It will be about rocks, both in space and on Earth, and the geology training that astronauts take in preparation for future lunar missions.


Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen to visit Ottawa, Regina and Moose Jaw

| Canadian Space Agency | media advisories

From February 6 to 9, Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut Jeremy Hansen will visit Ottawa, Regina and Moose Jaw to talk about the Artemis II mission, during which he will become the first Canadian to fly around the Moon. Jenni Gibbons, the Canadian backup astronaut for Artemis II, will accompany Jeremy at the Ottawa events.


The Aqualunar Challenge: Purifying Moon Water

| Canadian Space Agency | news releases

The Canadian Space Agency is calling on Canadian innovators to participate in the Aqualunar Challenge, a competition aimed at developing technologies that could be used to remove contaminants found in Moon water. In turn, these innovations could help advance current water purification processes on Earth.


Artemis II mission: New Launch Date

| Canadian Space Agency | media advisories

NASA is now targeting September 2025 as the new launch date for Artemis II, the first crewed Artemis mission, which will see Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen become the first Canadian to fly around the Moon. For more information, visit our website.


NASA teleconference: update on the Artemis II mission

| Canadian Space Agency | media advisories

On January 9 at 1:30 p.m. ET, NASA will hold a teleconference to discuss the latest updates on the Artemis program and the Lunar Gateway. Progress on the upcoming Artemis II mission, in which Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut Jeremy Hansen will serve as Mission Specialist and as the first Canadian to fly to the Moon, will also be discussed.


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