Feds’ lack of certainty being noted in international space community

Canada needs to act now to ensure that we don’t lose out on the space sector boom due to our inflexibility and inability to adapt to a rapidly changing sector.

Canada’s space sector is overseen by antiquated regulations and an equally out-of-step law called the Remote Sensing Space Systems Act, also known as the RSSSA, writes Conservative Sen. Dennis Patterson. Photograph courtesy of Pixabay

Opinion

BY CONSERVATIVE SENATOR DENNIS PATTERSON

November 26, 2018

According to the Canada Space Agency’s 2016 report entitled, “State of the Canadian Space Sector, Covering the Results from Our 2016 Survey," the space industry contributed $2.3-billion to Canada’s GDP and supports just shy of 22,000 jobs in the country. However, Canada’s space sector is...

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