Vancouver’s Metaspectral has been selected to proceed to the semifinals of the XPRIZE Wildfire competition. XPRIZE Wildfire is a 4-year, $11 million competition incentivizing the innovation of firefighting technologies to mitigate destructive wildfires. The prize aims to transform current wildfire management approaches through the development of new technologies that can rapidly and accurately detect, characterize, […]
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Vancouver Startup Wins Deep Space Challenge to Help Feed Astronauts
A coding hackathon runs for one or two days; a startup accelerator, perhaps three-to-six months. For Ecoation, the battle lasted three years. The Vancouver-based food-tech startup trumped rivals from the University of Guelph, Concordia, McGill, and more to win the years-long Deep Space Food Challenge. The Deep Space Food Challenge, hosted by the Canadian Space […]
Space Agency Offers $1 Million to Innovate Water-Tech on the Moon
The rugged and majestic coastline of British Columbia stretches on for more than 25,000 kilometres, from its southernmost tip at the US border near Vancouver, far north to the stunning and wild expanse of the Yukon Territory. Three-quarters of our vast province is covered with mountains (some up to 4,600 metres high), which shape the […]
Technology Collaboration to Improve Wildfire Detection in BC
Wildfires have been known to devastate regions and communities throughout BC. Combatting wildfires costs Canada a lot of money, and so the government is investing $170 million over the next decade to establish a new wildfire monitoring satellite system. Contributing to this system is OroraTech, a Germany-based industry leader in space-based thermal intelligence with offices […]
UrtheCast Receives $2 Million from the Canadian Space Agency
UrtheCast has been selected to receive $2.0 million from the Canadian Space Agency’s Space Technology Development Program. The funding was granted in two separate agreements of $1.0 million each for the development of new satellite technologies. The work is expected to start immediately and will be carried out over the next three years. “We are […]