• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Techcouver.com

 
 
  • News
  • Events
  • Interviews
  • Thought Leadership
  • Web Summit Vancouver
  • Jobs
  • About
    • Contact Us

Canadian Space Agency

Metaspectral Advances to Semifinals of Global Competition Innovating Wildfire Tech

April 17, 2024 by Knowlton Thomas Leave a Comment

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, […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Canadian Space Agency, Metaspectral

Vancouver Startup Wins Deep Space Challenge to Help Feed Astronauts

April 11, 2024 by Knowlton Thomas Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Canadian Space Agency, Deep Space Food Challenge, Ecoation, National Research Council of Canada

Space Agency Offers $1 Million to Innovate Water-Tech on the Moon

January 24, 2024 by Knowlton Thomas Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Canadian Space Agency

Technology Collaboration to Improve Wildfire Detection in BC

May 11, 2023 by Knowlton Thomas Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Canadian Space Agency, OroraTech

UrtheCast Receives $2 Million from the Canadian Space Agency

May 28, 2019 by Techcouver Newsdesk Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Ecosystem Tagged With: Canadian Space Agency, UrtheCast

Primary Sidebar

 
 

Stay Connected

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • RSS
  • Twitter

Community Partners

About Us

Techcouver provides real-time reporting and analysis of emerging technology news in Vancouver and throughout British … READ MORE... about About Us

Copyright © 2025 Incubate Ventures | Techtalent.ca · Decoder.ca · Calgary.tech · Fintech.ca · CleanEnergy.ca | Privacy