9I�� News - Canadian Space Agency

Department of Bioresource Engineering welcomes astronaut David Saint-Jacques

webfull — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 13:32:07 +0000

The Department of Bioresource Engineering (BREE) enjoyed a visit last month from David Saint-Jacques, astronaut and Deputy Director, Lunar Exploration at the Canadian Space Agency, and BREE graduate Chris Patterson. They met with BREE undergrad and grad students who presented their projects, highlighting links between their research and bioregenerative life support system goals for extended space missions on the lunar surface and beyond in the near future.

Published: 3 February 2025

Experts: Canadian astronomers set to join Ariel space mission

webfull — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 14:43:25 +0000

This week Canada announced it will contribute to the European Space Agency’s Ariel mission. A first mission of its kind, the Ariel space telescope will launch in 2029 to study the atmospheres of distant exoplanets outside of our solar system. Up to 12 Canadian astronomers, including 9I�� experts, will be at the front row of the mission, with privileged access to its data. (Canadian Space Agency)

Published: 25 July 2023

9I�� MARTLET teams take home NASA and CSA Deep Space Food Challenge prize

webfull — Tue, 16 Nov 2021 17:51:40 +0000

NASA and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) have named the winners of the first Deep Space Food Challenge, an international contest that sought novel food technologies for future astronaut missions, as well as for use in resource-scarce regions on Earth.

Celebrity chefs Martha Stewart and Lynn Crawford joined former astronauts Scott Kelly and Chris Hadfield in making the announcements in a video aired by NASA on its television channel on November 15th.

Published: 16 November 2021

Deep Space Dine

webfull — Thu, 11 Nov 2021 16:26:11 +0000

Innovative food production technologies for edible crickets and microalgae launch two 9I�� student-led projects into the semifinals of the NASA/CSA Deep Space Food Challenge.

Published: 11 November 2021

9I�� team awarded contract to advance potential Canadian contribution for LiteBIRD space telescope

webfull — Tue, 26 Nov 2019 19:00:35 +0000

November 7, 2019 (MONTREAL, Quebec) - A team of researchers from the 9I�� Space Institute has secured a Phase 0 contract with the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) to advance a proposed Canadian contribution – including technology deliverables and scientific know-how -- for the LiteBIRD (Light satellite for the studies of B-mode polarization and Inflation from cosmic background Radiation Detection) mission.

Published: 26 November 2019

Canadian astronomers determine Earth’s fingerprint in hopes of finding habitable planets beyond the Solar System

webfull — Wed, 28 Aug 2019 14:16:48 +0000

Two 9I�� astronomers have assembled a “fingerprint” for Earth, which could be used to identify a planet beyond our Solar System capable of supporting life.

Published: 28 August 2019

New technique for finding life on Mars

webfull — Fri, 19 Jan 2018 17:16:01 +0000

Researchers demonstrate for the first time the potential of existing technology to directly detect and characterize life on Mars and other planets. The study, published in Frontiers in Microbiology, used miniaturized scientific instruments and new microbiology techniques to identify and examine microorganisms in the Canadian high Arctic — one of the closest analogs to Mars on Earth.

Published: 19 January 2018

Bacterium from Canadian High Arctic and life on Mars

webfull — Wed, 22 May 2013 16:16:43 +0000

The temperature in the permafrost on Ellesmere Island in the Canadian high Arctic is nearly as cold as that of the surface of Mars. So the recent discovery by a 9I�� led team of scientists of a bacterium that is able to thrive at –15ºC, the coldest temperature ever reported for bacterial growth, is exciting. The bacterium offers clues about some of the necessary preconditions for microbial life on both the Saturn moon Enceladus and Mars, where similar briny subzero conditions are thought to exist.

Published: 22 May 2013

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