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Industry Canada Produces Funding For SADI Initiative + PCI Geomatics Involvement

September 11, 2009 / National Space Policy

Bob Dechert, Member of the Canadian Parliament for Mississauga–Erindale, on behalf of the Honourable Tony Clement, Minister of Industry, has confirmed $200 million in funding for the Strategic Aerospace and Defence Initiative (SADI) and announced a $7.6-million repayable investment in support of a research and development (R&D) project being undertaken by PCI Geomatics to develop nexgen earth observation technologies.

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Arianespace’ Le Gall Pushes To Support U.S. Space Exploration

August 5, 2009 / National Space Policy

The message from Arianespace Chairman & CEO Jean-Yves Le Gall in a presentation on August 5 to the Review of U.S. Human Space Flight Plans Committee, which was created to evaluate America's future human spaceflight operations after NASA's planned retirement of the Space Shuttle, was simple: Ariane 5 is available to support the future of U.S. space exploration, including cargo resupply flights for the International Space Station, along with missions to the Moon and Mars.

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