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In June 2016, as part of the Open Government Action Plan, the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat (TBS) committed to increasing the transparency and usefulness of grants and contribution data and subsequently launched the Guidelines on the Reporting of Grants and Contributions Awards, effective April 1, 2018.
The rules and principles governing government grants and contributions are outlined in the Treasury Board Policy on Transfer Payments. Transfer payments are transfers of money, goods, services or assets made from an appropriation to individuals, organizations or other levels of government, without the federal government directly receiving goods or services in return, but which may require the recipient to provide a report or other information subsequent to receiving payment. These expenditures are reported in the Public Accounts of Canada. The major types of transfer payments are grants, contributions and \'other transfer payments\'.
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$715,189.00
Jun 2, 2021
For-profit organization
Relative Navigation and Hazard Detection & Avoidance Integration for Commercial Landers
20STDPO01
Space agencies, research institutes and private organizations are looking for commercial landing services in order to reach sites of interest on the Moon. Because of their poorly known local topography, such sites are potentially hazardous for landing. These landing systems will require to be equipped with high-accuracy navigation systems to accurately reach their target and Hazard Detection and Avoidance (HDA) systems to detect and avoid any surface hazards at touchdown. There is currently no readily available commercial systems to answer this need.
The “Relative Navigation and Hazard Detection & Avoidance Integration for Commercial Landers” project aims at filling this need by developing a fully integrated and low-cost HDA system composed of a Lidar sensor, a camera sensor, an inertial measurement unit and an embedded processing unit where optical navigation and HDA functions are integrated. This innovative system will allow the reduction of the overall Moon landing system costs and bring more Canadian technology and know-how on the Moon.
$250,000.00
Apr 16, 2019
Moon exploration missions are a high priority for governments and commercial organizations. For these missions to be successful, lunar landing systems must provide space vehicles with the ability to land in specific locations and on any kind of terrain. Currently, landing systems that can reach a target site accurately, detect hazards on the Moon's surface, and avoid them are not commercially available.
This project will design and test a cost-effective, lightweight landing system that combines two technologies into a single unit to solve this problem. A highly-accurate navigation system will use two cameras to locate and estimate the condition of a landing site. A hazard detection and avoidance system will use active Lidar sensors to determine the best landing site to use. Addressing this gap in technology will open up an emerging commercial Moon transportation market to Canadian industry. It will also raise awareness of Canada's expertise in landing technology for space missions.
$100,000.00
Feb 1, 2013
The Research component of the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) Class Grant and Contribution Program to support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology provides financial support to organizations to conduct space related research and development in priority areas. It will support targeted knowledge development and innovation to sustain and enhance the Canadian capacity to use space to address national needs and priorities in the future.
More specifically, this project entitled "" Relative Navigation for Active Debris Removal "" has the objective (s):
The solution put forward involves the use of active sensors to measure the relative pose of debris. However, this measurement contains sensor noise. Furthermore, it does not directly provide information regarding the angular rate or the velocity of the target, information which is critical to the proximity and synchronisation operations. Since the sensor in itself does not provide a complete measurement of all the critical states, the estimation of the complete relative state vector needs to be performed by software functions, from a succession of relative pose measurements provided by the sensor. It is the purpose of the proposed project to design and test a Relative Navigation State Estimation Software (RENSES) system and to quantify its level of performance for a realistic operational scenario.
The debris removal scenario, for which the properties of the target and its dynamical conditions are unknown, is by far the most challenging scenario. However the RENSES system will also prove extremely valuable to all missions involving proximity operations with cooperative or non-cooperative targets or autonomous rendezvous operations.
Another critical technology NGC wants to develop as part of this project consists in Automated Tools for Tuning of State-Estimation (Kalman) Software (ATTSES).
$100,000.00
Feb 1, 2013
The Research component of the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) Class Grant and Contribution Program to support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology provides financial support to organizations to conduct space related research and development in priority areas. It will support targeted knowledge development and innovation to sustain and enhance the Canadian capacity to use space to address national needs and priorities in the future.
More specifically, this project entitled "" High Accuracy, High Agility Attitude Determination and Control System for Earth Satellite "" has the objective (s):
The proposed work intends to further advance Canada's capability in this field especially for High Accuracy and High Agility (HAHA) missions.
At Attitude and Orbit Control System (AOCS) software level:
• Pointing accuracy can be improved by reducing the error between the estimated and the true orientation; the error between the desired target and on-board computed target; the error between the target and the true orientation; the stability of the pointing over a specific time window.
• Agility can be improved by optimising the utilisation of available actuators and by designing optimal guidance laws.
NGC identified Guidance, Navigation and Control (GNC) solutions that can significantly improve the pointing accuracy and agility of spacecraft. Thus, the project aims at the design and validation of innovative GNC functions required to provide high accuracy and high agility capabilities to meet the demanding payload requirements of future Earth satellites.
This project will design, implement in a high fidelity simulator and assess the performance of the new algorithms using as reference missions the PROBA-3 mission and the PROBA-NEXT mission which represents the next missions requiring non-existing (or low-TRL) HAHA technologies.
$97,525.00
Jan 24, 2013
More specifically, this project entitled "" Q6 -LOCOOS "" has the objective (s): The project being funded under this contribution entails integrating the LOCOOS (Low-Cost Orbit and Orientation State estimation) software developed by NGC Aerospace Ltd. with Xiphos' Q6 processor and deploying the resulting Q6-LOCOOS product on one of three possible satellite opportunities.