{"id":2640,"date":"2022-09-26T12:54:13","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T16:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/research\/?p=2640"},"modified":"2022-09-21T12:56:24","modified_gmt":"2022-09-21T16:56:24","slug":"new-opportunity-for-canadian-students-to-build-and-launch-their-own-satellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/research\/new-opportunity-for-canadian-students-to-build-and-launch-their-own-satellites\/","title":{"rendered":"New opportunity for Canadian students to build and launch their own satellites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On September 20, the Honourable\u00a0Fran\u00e7ois-Philippe Champagne, Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, announced the launch of the CubeSats Initiative in Canada for STEM (CUBICS), a new opportunity for post-secondary professors and students to engage in a real space mission. CUBICS challenges teams to develop projects that help advance scientific knowledge in areas such as climate change. The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) plans to award a total of $3.4M\u00a0in grants to up to\u00a012 teams\u00a0to design, build and launch an end-to-end CubeSat or develop a standalone scientific instrument or experiment.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Building upon lessons learned from the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.asc-csa.gc.ca\/eng\/satellites\/cubesat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Canadian CubeSat Project<\/a>\u00a0(CCP), the\u00a0CSA\u00a0intends to launch a new CUBICS opportunity every three years to continue to stimulate student learning for years to come. CUBICS aims to be more reflective of the needs of new and experienced student teams led by a professor, allowing them to engage in a mission adapted to their level of comfort, expertise and readiness.<\/p>\n<p>CUBICS is one of the\u00a0CSA&#8217;s initiatives that aim to equip students with the experience, knowledge and skills to become sought-after candidates for positions in Canada&#8217;s space sector workforce.\u00a0CSA\u00a0experts will guide the teams as they prepare their missions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>To read more, please click <a href=\"https:\/\/educationnewscanada.com\/article\/education\/category\/0\/0\/980396\/b-new-opportunity-for-canadian-students-to-build-and-launch-their-own-satellites.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On September 20, the Honourable\u00a0Fran\u00e7ois-Philippe Champagne, Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, announced the launch of the CubeSats Initiative in Canada for STEM (CUBICS), a new opportunity for post-secondary professors and students to engage in a real space mission. CUBICS challenges teams to develop projects that help advance scientific knowledge in areas such as climate&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":283,"featured_media":1912,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[117,167,119,120,184,115,1],"tags":[180,175,137,208,138,135,235,225],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2640"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/283"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2641,"href":"https:\/\/www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2640\/revisions\/2641"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}