Grants and Contributions

Repair facilities and adapt mitigation measures against future disasters

The PRESET project will develop cutting-edge technologies for space radiation detection, magnetometry, digital signal processing, satellite communications, and attitude determination and control which will have a significant impact on Canada’s space industry and economic growth. Data collected from PRESET CubeSat will help us better understand how electrons move in low-Earth orbit during geomagnetic storms and their impact on the upper atmosphere. The advanced radiation detection technology developed by PRESET can also be used by Canadian nuclear industries to accurately measure real-time radiation doses, particularly during maintenance periods of the Canada Deuterium Uranium (CANDU) nuclear power plants.

Optimizing insect farming with an eye toward circular food production can both improve global food security and lead to new innovations for space travel. A primary goal of the project is to increase insect farm yield and to determine how to best manipulate diet content (Entomo-Alliance Project Objective 1) and environmental context (Entomo-Alliance Project Objective 2) to improve rearing facilities and practices and testing these findings at the cricket farm (Entomo-Alliance Project Objective 3). With support from the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), additional personnel will be added to these ongoing projects to build a sustainable circular food system (CSA funded project Objective 1). Circular food systems and colony monitoring will be essential components of future deep space travel, and this project will help place Canadian industry and academics at the global forefront of discovery in deep space food production.

This project provides a unique opportunity to combine key forestry needs for the Canadian industry with high-tech, space-based, solutions provided by the Canadian Space Agency to ensure that forestry in Canada remains a critical resource both for Gross Domestic Product as well as a natural climate solution to mitigate the impacts of climate change.

Movement is fundamental to the lives of animals, and due to the seasonality at high latitudes a high proportion of Canada’s wildlife is migratory. Understanding the life cycles and threats to these animals requires detailed information about migratory routes and timing, as well as sources of mortality.

The data collected from the CubeSats Initiative in Canada for STEM (CUBICS) mission will be used by research facilities across Canada to provide insight into our ice caps and oceans, a fundamental part of Canada’s landscape, and thus will increase our understanding of the causes and the effects of climate change.

With Canada's Arctic regions experiencing the effects of climate change faster than the rest of the country, northern Inuit and Indigenous communities require assistance.

This project proposes the development of an end-to-end “design, build, test and launch” 3U-CubeSat for monitoring climate change, and the associated engineering challenges to design and integrate science payloads and all the other subsystems with significant design limitations in terms of weight, volume and power. Skya’anaSat will aim to collect scientific data on the Earth’s atmosphere and oceans in order to improve our understanding on the mechanisms of climate change. The payload design combines active microwave and high frequency (HF) radio sensing from orbit, via software-defined radio (SDR), to make a powerful and novel climate and Earth science monitoring satellite in a highly-compact form and quick end-to-end development.

Operating costs: The project aims to enhance the innovation capacity of businesses in the Mauricie region by providing specialized support services.

The Women Pro-Forests: Climate Change Adaptation in the Moyen-Bafing National Park (Guinea) project is the result of a partnership between the Union des producteurs agricoles - Développement international and the Canada Research Chair in Ecological Economics of the University of Quebec in the Outaouais.