Our next CSCA meeting is Thursday, March 8th, 2012. The CSCA holds meetings in Toronto on the second Thursday of every other month, at the law offices of Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP, 199 Bay Street, Suite 4000, Commerce Court West, Toronto, Ontario, M5L 1A9.
If you’d like to participate, please RSVP the meeting chair at meetings@spacecommerce.ca. For more information, please go to the bimonthly meetings page.
Our next CSCA meeting is Thursday, January 12th, 2012. Our guest speaker will be Kevin Stolarick, PhD, the Research Director for the Martin Prosperity Institute at the Joseph L. Rotman School of Management. Professor Stolarick will be discussing the the role of sub-national factors (such as location, place and city-regions) in global economic prosperity and how this relates to the Canadian space systems industry and the larger aerospace industry.
The CSCA holds meetings in Toronto on the second Thursday of every other month, at the law offices of Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP, 199 Bay Street, Suite 4000, Commerce Court West, Toronto, Ontario, M5L 1A9.
Our next CSCA event is being held in conjunction with the Canadian Space Summit in Calgary, Alberta on November 23rd – 25th.
CSCA Director Farnaz Ghadaki is chairing the November 23rd commerce and commercialization sessions and has lined up an informative and topical series of speakers including Nathan Armstrong, the advisor for advanced manufacturing with the Alberta Space Program and president of Motive Industries; Chris Gainor, Canadian space historian and author of Arrows to the Moon: Avro’s Engineers and the Space Race; Nicole Geske, the operations manager at Lethbridge based data centre services provider BlackBridge Networks; Chuck Black, CSCA treasurer and writer/editor of the Commercial Space Blog; Jan Christopher Arp with Euroconsult North America; Jonathan Beland with Futron Corporation; and Natasha Rhodes, a travel advisor and “accredited space travel agent” for Virgin Galactic at the Vision 2000 Travel Group, who will be speaking in conjunction with Stephen Attenborough, the commercial director for suborbital spacecraft providers Virgin Galactic.
For more information on this event, please go to the Canadian Space Society website.
Our next CSCA meeting is Thursday, November 10th at Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP, 199 Bay Street, Suite 4000, Commerce Court West, Toronto, ON M5L 1A9.
Our guest speaker is Bryan Pilon, a project engineer for Cesaroni Technology who will be discussing the development of a novel stage-combustion aft-injected hybrid (SCAIH) propulsion system for a small Canadian rocket launcher.
Meetings are called to order at 7:30 pm EST and the presentation begins at 8:00 pm EST sharp.
All are welcome to attend this open meeting which will also be available live as an online webinar beginning at 8pm EST. If you’d like to participate, please RSVP the meeting chair at meetings@spacecommerce.ca.
For more information, please check out the CSCA bimonthly meetings page.
The September 8th Futron presentation now available to CSCA members who weren’t able to attend the event. For more information please e-mail mr.chuck.black@gmail.com.
The Canadian Press has reported on the 2011 Futron Space Competitiveness Index (the topic of our September 8th, 2011 CSCA bimonthly meeting) in the September 10th, 2011 article “India Overtakes Canada in Space: Report.”
The article quotes David Vaccaro, program manager for Futron Corporation, as stating that the index shows Canada has slipped behind India and is being challenged hard by Brazil, China, Israel, Japan and South Korea.
“My sense is that what’s really happening is that as other countries start to move up, Canada has lost relative positional strength because other countries have started to advance faster,” he told The Canadian Press.
The article also quotes CSCA treasurer Chuck Black and Canadian Space Society President Kevin Shortt.
Just a reminder that our next CSCA meeting is Thursday, September 8th at Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP, 199 Bay Street, Suite 4000, Commerce Court West, Toronto, ON M5L 1A9.
Our guest speaker is David Vaccaro, a program manager for Futron Corporation, a leader in providing innovative Decision Management Solutions (DMS) to the new-space and aerospace industries.
David and his team, including analysts Jay Gullish, Ian Christensen, and Jon Beland, will discuss Canadian competitiveness in the international space and aerospace arena by referencing data collected for the recently published 2011 Futron Space Competitiveness Index.
Meetings are called to order at 7:30 pm EST and the presentation begins at 8:00 pm sharp. This meeting will be accessible online so if you’d like to attend, please RSVP the meeting chair at meetings@spacecommerce.ca.
For more information, please visit our CSCA website at www.spacecommerce.ca.
Our next CSCA meeting is Thursday, September 8th at Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP, 199 Bay Street, Suite 4000, Commerce Court West, Toronto, Ontario, M5L 1A9.
Our guest speaker is David Vaccaro, a program manager for Futron Corporation, a leader in providing innovative Decision Management Solutions (DMS) to the new-space and aerospace industries. David and his team, including analysts Jay Gullish, Ian Christensen, and Jon Beland, will discuss Canadian competitiveness in the international space and aerospace arena by referencing data collected for the recently published 2011 Futron Space Competitiveness Index.
Meetings are called to order at 7:30pm and the presentation begins at 8:00 pm sharp. All are welcome to attend this open meeting so if you’d like to participate, please RSVP the meeting chair at meetings@spacecommerce.ca.
For more information, please check out the bimonthly meetings page.
Our next CSCA meeting is Thursday, September 8th at Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP, 199 Bay Street, Suite 4000, Commerce Court West, Toronto, ON M5L 1A9.
This is a open meeting for all with a special guest speaker to be announced shortly. To attend, please RSVP by contacting the meeting chair at meetings@spacecommerce.ca.
Meetings are called to order at 7:30pm and the presentation begins at 8:00 pm sharp. To find out more, please visit our CSCA website at www.spacecommerce.ca.
This is the end of day panel discussion which finished off the March 19th, 2011 Canadian Space Commerce Association (CSCA) conference and annual general meeting. It focused on “the Next Breakthrough Space Technologies for Canada and took place at the MaRS Discovery District in Toronto, Ontario.
CSCA Treasurer Chuck Black acted as host for the discussion. Other participants, from left to right included:
Topics discussed include:
Canada has played a key role in developing critical technologies for the space sector for more than 50 years.
But as more countries spend an increasing amount of money on space technology such as satellite development, and while Canada finds itself in an increasingly competitive business field. So what then are the technologies that Canada can lead in, now and in the future?
