spaceleclerc
@spaceleclerc.bsky.social
Director at Canadensys Aerospace Corp. Former Director General, Space
Exploration at the Canadian Space Agency. Still exploring.
Exploration at the Canadian Space Agency. Still exploring.
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"The Ramses mission, to be built on a tight schedule to intercept the asteroid Apophis on its close encounter with Earth in 2029 is funded, and will help to prepare for future potentially hazardous asteroids."
Congratulations and good luck to everyone on the Ramses team!
www.esa.int/About_Us/Cor...
Congratulations and good luck to everyone on the Ramses team!
www.esa.int/About_Us/Cor...
ESA Member States commit to largest contributions at Ministerial
The largest contributions in the history of the European Space Agency, €22.1 bn, have been approved at its Council meeting at Ministerial level in Bremen, ...
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November 28, 2025 at 3:55 PM
"The Ramses mission, to be built on a tight schedule to intercept the asteroid Apophis on its close encounter with Earth in 2029 is funded, and will help to prepare for future potentially hazardous asteroids."
Congratulations and good luck to everyone on the Ramses team!
www.esa.int/About_Us/Cor...
Congratulations and good luck to everyone on the Ramses team!
www.esa.int/About_Us/Cor...
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Canada has announced an additional $528.5 million investment in ESA programmes at #CM25.
www.canada.ca/en/space-age...
www.canada.ca/en/space-age...
Canada Deepens Space Ties with Europe Through Historic Investment - Canada.ca
Today, at the SpaceBound 2025 Conference, the Honourable Mélanie Joly, Minister of Industry and Minister responsible for Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions, made the historic announcement ...
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November 19, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Canada has announced an additional $528.5 million investment in ESA programmes at #CM25.
www.canada.ca/en/space-age...
www.canada.ca/en/space-age...
Montreal’s Yoshua Bengio becomes the first person to hit one million citations www.nature.com/articles/d41...
‘Godfather of AI’ becomes first person to hit one million citations
The milestone makes machine-learning trailblazer Yoshua Bengio the most cited researcher on Google Scholar.
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November 12, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Montreal’s Yoshua Bengio becomes the first person to hit one million citations www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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
www.thespacereview.com/article/5092/1
November 4, 2025 at 2:15 PM
After 25 years, the ‘ISS has encompassed a massive block of space history’
www.thespacereview.com/article/5092/1
www.thespacereview.com/article/5092/1
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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... 🎂
Anyone born after this date has never known a day without a human presence in space... 🎂
October 31, 2025 at 11:52 AM
#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... 🎂
Anyone born after this date has never known a day without a human presence in space... 🎂
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
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October 21, 2025 at 12:14 PM
An Army of Robot Telescopes in Texas Makes the Stars Feel Closer Than Ever www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/s...
‘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...
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
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October 16, 2025 at 10:51 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...
www.openaccessgovernment.org/article/a-ne...
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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
Gotta love Canadians - this guy was greeting folks on the Halifax, Nova Scotia waterfront who were visiting from the US on cruise ships.
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Mathematicians Are Making Earth Based Telescopes Rival Space Observatories
www.universetoday.com/articles/mat...
www.universetoday.com/articles/mat...
Mathematicians Are Making Earth Based Telescopes Rival Space Observatories
Earth's atmosphere has always been the enemy of ground based astronomy and don’t I know it. What would otherwise be crisp, clean datasets gets turned into blurry smudges. Space telescopes avoid the pr...
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October 15, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Mathematicians Are Making Earth Based Telescopes Rival Space Observatories
www.universetoday.com/articles/mat...
www.universetoday.com/articles/mat...
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360° panorama captured just 12 hours ago by Curiosity, from within a trough of the boxwork structure
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#Mars Oct. 12, 2025 - Sol 4687 🧪🔭
Credit images: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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#Mars Oct. 12, 2025 - Sol 4687 🧪🔭
Credit images: NASA/JPL-Caltech
October 13, 2025 at 10:54 AM
360° panorama captured just 12 hours ago by Curiosity, from within a trough of the boxwork structure
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#Mars Oct. 12, 2025 - Sol 4687 🧪🔭
Credit images: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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#Mars Oct. 12, 2025 - Sol 4687 🧪🔭
Credit images: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Words from a true visionary leader, soon to become the first non-American to fly to the Moon.
spaceq.ca/exclusive-ar...
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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
Words from a true visionary leader, soon to become the first non-American to fly to the Moon.
spaceq.ca/exclusive-ar...
spaceq.ca/exclusive-ar...
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
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October 6, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Beyond the Nobel Prizes Is a World of Scientific Awards www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/s...
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...
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
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...
theconversation.com/the-other-sp...
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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
🔴 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
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
🔴 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
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...
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
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...
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...
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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
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Barcelona Is Made of Math www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Exploring Barcelona's Architecture Through a Mathematical Lens
A virtual tour of the architecture in a city where mathematics and exploration meet.
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September 25, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Barcelona Is Made of Math www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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
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September 25, 2025 at 12:43 PM
There Are More Robots Working in China Than the Rest of the World Combined www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/b...
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Is it just me? The center of mass of Blue Moon Mk 1 is a bit high.
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September 22, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Is it just me? The center of mass of Blue Moon Mk 1 is a bit high.
jatan.space/moon-monday-...
jatan.space/moon-monday-...