Canadian Space Mining Corporation: federal grants and contributions

Updated 12 October 2026 · Toronto|Toronto, ON · grants and contributions register · Toronto–St. Paul's

Canadian Space Mining Corporation: federal grants and contributions: 8 agreements; $3.3M value; 3 departments; 4 programs.

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8agreements
$3.3Mvalue
3departments
4programs

Largest agreements

Fission Surface Power$1.0Mvalue2023start2025end

Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) are a critical path for meeting clean energy demands on Earth as well as delivering sustainable power to habitats and industrial activities on the lunar surface. However, current efforts to develop novel SMRs are trailing far behind the requirements for both, to the detriment of our planet and scientific exploration. This is especially meaningful in Canada’s Arctic, where diesel generators are accelerating ice melt to disastrous and irreversible effects on the world’s climate. SMR requirements sit at the nexus of timing, technology gaps, and iconic Canadian streng

  • Canadian Space Agency
  • Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
Low Enriched Uranium Nuclear Reactor$1.0Mvalue2025start2027end

CSMC is actively developing Canada’s only space Micro Modular Reactor (MMR) — the Low Enriched Uranium Nuclear Reactor (“LEUNR”) — a flagship capability to help establish Canada’s international leadership in an increasingly strategic and competitive domain for space nuclear. The proposed work seeks to validate the conceptual performance of the reactor through representative, unfueled testing on CSMC’s analog reactor, and inform CSMC’s work to raise LEUNR’s readiness from its TRL 4/5 Conceptual Design to a TRL 6 Detailed Design by the end of the project. Commercial space activities have been gr

  • Canadian Space Agency
  • Class Grant and Contribution Program toSupport Research, Awareness and Learningin Space Science and Technology
Low-Enriched Uranium Nuclear Reactor (LEUNR)$1.0Mvalue2025start2027end

Funding will support research and development to address National Defence’s Challenge: North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) Modernization Science & Technology (S&T) Contest. Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC) and its defence and security partners seek to advance capabilities in five key areas: quantum technologies; autonomous systems; counter-uncrewed aerial systems (CUAS); Arctic mobility and navigation of military platforms; and energy solutions that are scalable, efficient, and sustainable for current and future Arctic operations. The initiative targets critical scie

Quantum anomaly and subsurface mapper$120Kvalue2024start2025end

CSMC’s Quantum Anomaly & Subsurface Mapper (QASM) is a next wave technology for gravity sensing and resource prospecting with precision beyond the state-of-the-art. This project will advance its AI/data capabilities.

LunaPure - A sustainable system to purify lunar water from the Lunar Polar regions.$105Kvalue2025start2025end

LunaPure is an entirely self-sustained system that relies on the controlled application of natural elements of the lunar environment to convert dirty lunar ice into drinkable water.

  • Canadian Space Agency
  • Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
Time and Impedance Multi-Sensor$75.0Kvalue2022start2023end

The Canadian Space Mining Company (CSMC) has developed domain expertise in the field of resource exploration on the lunar surface. As part of that effort CSMC has developed a novel concept for an imaging device that is low power, inexpensive and man-portable with applications ranging from geotechnical use for identification of critical minerals on both Earth and the lunar surface; to 3D tomography of human tissue for in-field medical applications; to defect detection for advanced manufacturing. Through this project CSMC seeks to validate its TIMS concept, thereby advancing the state-of-the-art

LunaPure - A sustainable system to purify lunar water from the Lunar Polar regions.$22.5Kvalue2024start2025end

LunaPure is an entirely self-sustained system that relies on the controlled application of natural elements of the lunar environment to convert dirty lunar ice into drinkable water.

  • Canadian Space Agency
  • Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
EUREKA Cluster – ITEA – Participation in ITEA 2024 PO Days in Antwerp, Belgium$5.0Kvalue2024start2024end

Participation in the ITEA Project Outline (PO) Days in Antwerp, Belgium along Canadian orientation activities. Mission will take place from September 9 to 13, 2024. The goal of Canadian participation in the PO Days is to develop international partnerships and potential project ideas under the Eureka ITEA Cluster

Departments

Canadian Space Agency4agreements$2.1Mvalue2programs
  • Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
  • Class Grant and Contribution Program toSupport Research, Awareness and Learningin Space Science and Technology

All grants from Canadian Space Agency

National Defence1agreements$1.0Mvalue1programs
  • Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security Program

All grants from National Defence

National Research Council Canada3agreements$200Kvalue1programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms

All grants from National Research Council Canada

Years

20253agreements$2.1Mvalue3programs
  • Class Grant and Contribution Program toSupport Research, Awareness and Learningin Space Science and Technology
  • Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security Program
  • Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
20243agreements$148Kvalue2programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
  • Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
20231agreements$1.0Mvalue1programs
  • Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
20221agreements$75.0Kvalue1programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms

Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada. Source: Government of Canada proactive disclosure of grants and contributions (open.canada.ca, dataset 432527ab-7aac-45b5-81d6-7597107a7013), 1,327,352 rows as published, collapsed to one agreement per agreement number (per reference number where none is given) at its latest amendment, which carries the full agreement value. Years are the agreement start year. Agreements with individuals are counted but not named.