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Director at Canadensys Aerospace Corp. Former Director General, Space
Exploration at the Canadian Space Agency. Still exploring.
November 7, 2025 at 6:08 PM
After 25 years, the ‘ISS has encompassed a massive block of space history’
www.thespacereview.com/article/5092/1
November 4, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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#OTD 2️⃣5️⃣ years ago: 31 October 2000, launch of Expedition 1 and the first permanent crew to the International Space Station 🚀

Anyone born after this date has never known a day without a human presence in space... 🎂
October 31, 2025 at 11:52 AM
An Army of Robot Telescopes in Texas Makes the Stars Feel Closer Than Ever www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/s...
An Army of Robot Telescopes in Texas Makes the Stars Feel Closer Than Ever
www.nytimes.com
October 21, 2025 at 12:14 PM
‘The Canadian Space Agency’s Lunar Rover Mission will be the first-ever Canadian-led mission to the surface of another planetary body. Canadensys Aerospace Corporation leads the team designing and building this historic rover.’
www.openaccessgovernment.org/article/a-ne...
A new era of Lunar exploration: Canada is heading to the Moon
With Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen leading the way, Canada is heading to the Moon with humans and robots, as explained by Dr. Gordon Osinski
www.openaccessgovernment.org
October 16, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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Gotta love Canadians - this guy was greeting folks on the Halifax, Nova Scotia waterfront who were visiting from the US on cruise ships.
October 15, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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360° panorama captured just 12 hours ago by Curiosity, from within a trough of the boxwork structure

▶️ zoomhub.net/w2kgN
▶️ www.360cities.net/image/curios...

#Mars Oct. 12, 2025 - Sol 4687 🧪🔭
Credit images: NASA/JPL-Caltech
October 13, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Words from a true visionary leader, soon to become the first non-American to fly to the Moon.
spaceq.ca/exclusive-ar...
Exclusive: Artemis 2 'is not the peak of our mountain, in Canada' says astronaut Hansen
Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen is in his last few weeks of media availability before embarking on the first crewed mission to the moon in more than 50 years.
spaceq.ca
October 9, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Beyond the Nobel Prizes Is a World of Scientific Awards www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/s...
Beyond the Nobel Prizes Is a World of Scientific Awards
www.nytimes.com
October 6, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Why we send stuff into space: Being first? Immortality? Nostalgia?Communicating with aliens? Marking the locations where we want to end up?

theconversation.com/the-other-sp...
The other space race: why the world is obsessed with sending objects into orbit
From temples and ashes to cars and AI, humans are populating space with beloved items.
theconversation.com
October 3, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Fly over Xanthe Terra with #MarsExpress 🛰️

🔴 Travel along a valley carved out some 3.5 billion years ago
🔴 Pass by impact craters
🔴 Go over lowlands once flattened by floodwaters

Enjoy the flight, and turn up the volume 🔊
www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...

🔭 #planetsci
October 2, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Only 7% of members of the US Congress have a STEM degree. More than 40% are lawyers.
Engineers no longer dominate China’s top leadership as they once did but they still account for 33% of the politburo - including Xi Jinping who has a degree in chemical engineering.

www.wbur.org/onpoint/2025...
Lessons for the U.S. in 'China’s quest to engineer the future'
How can a lawyerly society and an engineering society learn from each other? And what’s at stake if they fail? Author Dan Wang set out to answer those questions about the U.S. and China.
www.wbur.org
October 1, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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#NASAWebb has found the first direct evidence of potential moon formation around a giant exoplanet. The discovery is shedding light on how such systems evolve and why moons could be potentially habitable worlds: https://bit.ly/46xGodN 🔭 🧪
September 29, 2025 at 8:38 PM
There Are More Robots Working in China Than the Rest of the World Combined www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/b...
There Are More Robots Working in China Than the Rest of the World Combined
www.nytimes.com
September 25, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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Is it just me? The center of mass of Blue Moon Mk 1 is a bit high.
jatan.space/moon-monday-...
September 22, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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The sunrise on the rim of Jezero Crater

#Mars Sep. 19, 2025 - Sol 1629
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech 🧪🔭
September 20, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Canadensys gets International Lunar Observatory Association contract spaceq.ca/canadensys-g...
Canadensys gets International Lunar Observatory Association contract
Canadensys Aerospace will design and build an instrument suite for the International Lunar Observatory Association (ILOA) ILO-1 mission.
spaceq.ca
September 18, 2025 at 12:33 AM