Contracts awarded for the development of enabling space technologies in
In the spring of , following a request for proposals issued in , the Space Technology Development Program (STDP) awarded nine contracts totalling $10.3M for the development of enabling space technologies for future missions. The aim is to reduce technical uncertainties and support specific potential future space missions of interest to Canada. The list of contracts awarded, including organizations, contract values and project descriptions, is presented below.
| Organization | Contract value | Proposal |
|---|---|---|
| ABB Inc. Quebec City, Quebec |
$2,249,109 | Wide-Field Astronomical Imaging in UV/Optical – Critical Technologies |
| Nüvü Caméras Montreal, Quebec |
$825,289 | EMCCD Technology for Nanosatellites |
| Bishop's University Sherbrooke, Quebec |
$999,145 | Optical Telescope Assembly to Advance a Microsatellite for the Study of Exoplanets |
| C-CORE Ottawa, Ontario |
$399,775 | Block Chaining in Service of Earth Observation Big Data |
| SpaceAlpha Insight Corp. (formerly UrtheCast), Vancouver, British Columbia |
$1,731,334 | SAR High Speed On-Board Processing |
| EarthDaily Analytics (formerly UrtheCast), Vancouver, British Columbia |
$600,000 | Cloud Native Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Processing using the Earth Data Store |
| ABB Inc. Quebec City, Quebec |
$800,897 | Mass and Volume Reduction for Martian Atmospheric Gas Evolution Experiment |
| University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta |
$899,998 | Planetary Sweeping Energetic Particle Telescope (P-SWEPT) |
| MDA Corp. Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec |
$1,749,984 | SAR High-Speed On-Board Processing |
Contact
Should you have any questions regarding the STDP funding initiative, contact us at pdts-stdp@asc-csa.gc.ca.