Canadian Space Agency

Space weather has a variety of impacts on technology, both in space and on the ground. In space, the impacts include health risks to astronauts due to radiation exposure and physical risks to satellites and their electrical components due to energetic electrons and solar flare protons. Space...

SRLs provide an effective evaluation and continuous assessment of the level of scientific maturity and associated scientific risk in achieving the scientific objective of a space science investigation with respect to mission objectives and expected outcomes.

The GO Canada initiative is a project that brings together a variety of space weather research tools and infrastructure. This network of ground-based instruments (more than 120 as of June 2019) that monitor space weather over Canada's North collects geospatial data, conducts scientific research...

The objective of this audit was to determine whether the existing management framework allows the Lunar Exploration Accelerator Program (LEAP) to achieve its objectives and to comply with relevant acts, policies, regulations and guidelines issued by the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) and the central...

Departmental Performance Reports (DPRs) are individual department and agency accounts of results achieved against planned performance expectations as set out in respective Reports on Plans and Priorities (RPP). These Performance Reports, which cover the most recently completed fiscal year, are...

Departmental Performance Reports (DPRs) are individual department and agency accounts of results achieved against planned performance expectations as set out in respective Reports on Plans and Priorities (RPP). These Performance Reports, which cover the most recently completed fiscal year, are...

Departmental Performance Reports (DPRs) are individual department and agency accounts of results achieved against planned performance expectations as set out in respective Reports on Plans and Priorities (RPP). These Performance Reports, which cover the most recently completed fiscal year, are...

Departmental Performance Reports (DPRs) are individual department and agency accounts of results achieved against planned performance expectations as set out in respective Reports on Plans and Priorities (RPP). These Performance Reports, which cover the most recently completed fiscal year, are...

This quarterly financial report has been prepared by management as required by section 65.1 of the Financial Administration Act and in the form and manner prescribed by the Treasury Board. This quarterly financial report should be read in conjunction with the 2022-2023 Main Estimates

The Wind Imaging Interferometer (WINDII) was launched on NASA’s Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite on 12 September 1991 and operated until 2003. Its role in the mission was to measure vector winds in the Earth’s atmosphere from 80 to 110 km, but its measurements extended to nearly 300 km. The...

This report presents the findings of the evaluation of the Implementation of Gender-Based Analysis Plus practices at Canadian Space Agency (CSA) since the CSA’s GBA+ Policy took effect in 2017. This is the first thematic evaluation at the CSA and it was carried out by the CSA’s Audit and...

Departmental Plans (DPs) and Reports on Plans and Priorities (RPPs) are individual expenditure plans for each department and agency (excluding Crown corporations). These reports provide increased levels of detail over a three-year period on an organization's main priorities by strategic...

Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST) is a 2-m telescope that has conducted a series of sub-mm imaging surveys at wavelengths 250-500 µm, starting in 2005. BLAST has measured photometric redshifts, rest-frame far-infrared (FIR) luminosities and star formation rates of...

This report presents the findings of the evaluation of the Canadian Space Agency (CSA)' Sun-Earth Science Business Line (SESS-BL). The SESS-BL's fundamental purpose is to support Canada's contribution to the advancement of the scientific knowledge concerning the Sun-Earth system, and the...

This quarterly financial report has been prepared by management as required by section 65.1 of the Financial Administration Act and in the form and manner prescribed by the Treasury Board. This quarterly financial report should be read in conjunction with the 2020-2021 Main Estimates

Canada’s SCISAT is studying the complex chemical processes that affect the distribution of ozone in the upper atmosphere, especially over the Artic. From its orbit 650 kilometres above the Earth, its instruments use the light from sunrises and sunsets each day to identify more than 60 gases and...

The dataset includes the astronomical images from the Near-Earth Object Surveillance Satellite (NEOSSat). NEOSSat was launched on February 25, 2013 and it is the first space satellite dedicated to detecting and tracking asteroids and satellites. The suitcase-sized NEOSSat orbits at an altitude of...

Canada's Optical Spectrograph and InfraRed Imaging System (OSIRIS) is the optical payload on Sweden's Odin satellite. It works in synergy with Sweden's advanced radiometer and measures atmospheric composition. Since 2001, OSIRIS has obtained valuable information on the upper atmosphere. It...

Departmental Evaluation Plan 2021-2022 to 2025-2026

The objective of this audit was to determine whether the management framework in place allows the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) to comply with the requirements of the Government of Canada's laws, regulations, policies, directives and strategic framework for intellectual property (IP).