Grants and Contributions

Rocket Lab Toronto has successfully manufactured and sold ST-16RT2 star trackers to the global small satellite market for 10 years. The ST-16TR2 product is well positioned for low Earth orbit missions, however, it was not designed for missions operating in more severe environments. Following Rocket Labs “careful COTS” approach, this project will undertake research, selection, and tests of commercial components to qualify them for severe environments. These components will be used to develop a new star tracker product suitable for a broader range of environments, increasing the market accessible to Rocket Lab star tracker products. This development will benefit Canada by providing a sovereign star tracker product for satellite missions. It is also the first step towards further developments of the product for future Space Situational Awareness purposes that is critical in providing Canadians' security and defense capability.

Access to improved navigation and time is paramount to the modernization and automation of several industries, including agriculture, natural resource management (mining), and transportation. This project focusses on development of Xona-enabled user equipment (receiver) technology for use within heavy industry applications, in particular precision agriculture and mining. This includes field-testing of the signals and hardware, testing of live satellite transmissions, and development of an in-house Xona PULSAR receiver. The in-house receiver will serve as a baseline to showcase various features and Xona capabilities to industry leaders and to enable demonstration of resilient high precision positioning within the agricultural and mining industries. These domains represent major pillars of Canadian industry and are also the expected early adopters of Xona’s technology. By implementing and field-testing this receiver with actual PULSAR satellite signals, Xona will prepare its technology for expansion into the larger Canadian and global business and industrial contexts.

The magnetic field is a ubiquitous resource that is essential to navigation and resource exploration, both on Earth and in space. One of the main challenges of magnetic sensing in space environments is to combine high precision and high efficiency on a vector magnetometry platform in order to extend the estimation of navigational magnetic charts and mineral resources to extraterrestrial applications. HEQASPAN builds on SBQuantum's efforts to prepare a diamond-based quantum magnetometer for LEO by refining the energy efficiency and accuracy of the sensor from a resource-limited cubesat platform. SBQ will develop and implement new quantum control and readout pulse sequences to optimize sensor efficiency and precision, unlocking the deployment of small cubesat constellations. Future constellations will enable the production of high-precision, high-refresh rate magnetic navigation charts for the Northern Territories while providing drone-compatible technology for mineral exploration in challenging remote areas.

Contribution agreement to support the University Network of Excellence in Nuclear Engineering (UNENE).

Funding will support research and development to identify solutions to National Defence’s Challenge: Lighting the path with AI: Advanced analytics and decision support for first responders. Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC) in collaboration with Canada’s safety & security communities are seeking to advance the application of promising advanced decision support technologies including, but not limited to, artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML), intelligent sensors, wearable technologies, Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity technologies (e.g. 5G, Long Range (LoRa)), and synthetic environments technologies (e.g. Virtual Reality (VR), Augment Reality (AR), Extended Reality (XR), Mixed Reality (MR)) in the safety and security domain.

The project is to provide an opportunity to a youth candidate with food preparation skills to work with the firm for the purposes of further developing and scaling its food processing business.

This project's intention is to gather and validate customer data that will enable the firm to develop and improve business processes pertaining to customer acquisition. It will support the first phase of a multi-year go-to-market initiative whereby LegacyX aims to enhance its UnionX Suite’s market penetration in North America.
Scope involves customer research, including defining, testing, and refining a customer journey map to root market expansion strategy in real customer insights and needs.
Outcomes include insightful customer understanding, strategic marketing, and competitive positioning, all while adjusting business processes that will enable scaling sales operations and maintaining quality customer interactions.

Development and testing of a light composite combustion chamber and a refractory alloy nozzle extension for an hybrid rocket engine.

The project involves integrating artificial intelligence functionalities to enhance the analysis capabilities and management performance of the software platform.

In order to accelerate the adoption of reusable products incorporating the firm’s patented filtration technology, it is necessary to develop a plan for testing and collecting data from early adopters.