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Space program overview Canada, in 3 editions.
The entry for Canada published Space program overview in 3 editions of 36, from 2023 to 2025. The text changed in 2 editions. Each is shown as published. Space program overview in every entry.
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Published as “Space program overview” (2023 to 2025).
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Changed since 2024- has a substantial program, a national space strategy, and a long history of developing space-related technologies;
- designs, builds, operates, and tracks communications, remote sensing (RS), multi-mission, and scientific/testing satellites;
- has an astronaut program (train in the US);
- designs, builds, or contributes to a variety of other space-related programs, including space telescopes, planetary probes, sensors, and robotic systems (such as the Canadian-made robotic arms used on the US Space Shuttle and the International Space Station);
- participates in international space efforts and cooperates with a variety of foreign space agencies and commercial entities, including those of Argentina, Brazil, the European Space Agency (ESA)/EU (and their member states), India, and particularly the US;
- ESA Cooperating State since 1979;
- has a robust commercial space sector that is involved in satellite communications, optics, space exploration, navigation, and space science (2023)
note: further details about the key activities, programs, and milestones of the country’s space program, as well as government spending estimates on the space sector, appear in Appendix S
has a substantial program, a national space strategy, and a long history of developing space-related technologies; designs, builds, operates, and tracks communications, remote sensing (RS), multi-mission, and scientific/testing satellites; has an astronaut program (train in the US); designs, builds, or contributes to a variety of other space-related programs, including space telescopes, planetary probes, sensors, and robotic systems (such as the Canadian-made robotic arms used on the US Space Shuttle and the International Space Station); participates in international space efforts and cooperates with a variety of foreign space agencies and commercial entities, including those of Argentina, Brazil, the European Space Agency (ESA)/EU (and their member states), India, and particularly the US; ESA Cooperating State since 1979; has a robust commercial space sector that is involved in satellite communications, optics, space exploration, navigation, and space science (2023)
note: further details about the key activities, programs, and milestones of the country’s space program, as well as government spending estimates on the space sector, appear in Appendix S
- has a substantial program, a national space strategy, and a long history of developing space-related technologies;
- designs, builds, operates, and tracks communications, remote sensing (RS), multi-mission, and scientific/testing satellites;
- has an astronaut program (train in the US);
- designs, builds, or contributes to a variety of other space-related programs, including space telescopes, planetary probes, sensors, and robotic systems (such as the Canadian-made robotic arms used on the US Space Shuttle and the International Space Station);
- participates in international space efforts and cooperates with a variety of foreign space agencies and commercial entities, including those of Argentina, Brazil, the European Space Agency (ESA)/EU (and their member states), India, and particularly the US;
- ESA Cooperating State since 1979;
- has a robust commercial space sector that is involved in satellite communications, optics, space exploration, navigation, and space science (2024)
note: further details about the key activities, programs, and milestones of the country’s space program, as well as government spending estimates on the space sector, appear in the Space Programs reference guide
has a substantial program, a national space strategy, and a long history of developing space-related technologies; designs, builds, operates, and tracks communications, remote sensing (RS), multi-mission, and scientific/testing satellites; has an astronaut program (train in the US); designs, builds, or contributes to a variety of other space-related programs, including space telescopes, planetary probes, sensors, and robotic systems (such as the Canadian-made robotic arms used on the US Space Shuttle and the International Space Station); participates in international space efforts and cooperates with a variety of foreign space agencies and commercial entities, including those of Argentina, Brazil, the European Space Agency (ESA)/EU (and their member states), India, and particularly the US; ESA Cooperating State since 1979; has a robust commercial space sector that is involved in satellite communications, optics, space exploration, navigation, and space science (2023) (2024)
note: further details about the key activities, programs, and milestones of the country’s space program, as well as government spending estimates on the space sector, appear in Appendix S the Space Programs reference guide
- has a national space strategy and a long history of developing space-related technologies;
- designs, builds, operates, and tracks communications, remote sensing (RS), multi-mission, and scientific/testing satellites;
- has an astronaut program;
- involved in the development and production of advanced communications systems, lunar rovers, planetary probes, robotics, sensors, and space telescopes;
- participates in international space programs, including the International Space Station, the Hubble Space Telescope, the Square Kilometer Array radio telescope, and the James Webb Space Telescope;
- Cooperating State of the ESA since 1979 and participates in a variety of ESA programs, such as the Copernicus Earth observation project;
- works with numerous foreign space agencies and commercial entities, including those of Argentina, Brazil, individual ESA and EU member states, Japan, India, and particularly the US;
- has an active commercial space sector (2025)
has a substantial program, a national space strategy, strategy and a long history of developing space-related technologies; designs, builds, operates, and tracks communications, remote sensing (RS), multi-mission, and scientific/testing satellites; has an astronaut program (train program; involved in the US); designs, builds, or contributes to a variety development and production of other space-related programs, including space telescopes, advanced communications systems, lunar rovers, planetary probes, robotics, sensors, and robotic systems (such as space telescopes; participates in international space programs, including the Canadian-made robotic arms used on International Space Station, the US Hubble Space Shuttle Telescope, the Square Kilometer Array radio telescope, and the International James Webb Space Station); Telescope; Cooperating State of the ESA since 1979 and participates in international space efforts and cooperates with a variety of ESA programs, such as the Copernicus Earth observation project; works with numerous foreign space agencies and commercial entities, including those of Argentina, Brazil, the European Space Agency (ESA)/EU (and their individual ESA and EU member states), states, Japan, India, and particularly the US; ESA Cooperating State since 1979; has a robust an active commercial space sector that is involved in satellite communications, optics, space exploration, navigation, and space science (2024) (2025)
note: further details about the key activities, programs, and milestones of the country’s space program, as well as government spending estimates on the space sector, appear in the Space Programs reference guide
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Central Intelligence Agency. “Canada: Space program overview.” The World Factbook, 2023–2025 editions. Archived by The Factbook, thefactbook.org/canada/space-program-overview.