UrtheCast Corp.: federal grants and contributions

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UrtheCast Corp.: federal grants and contributions: 6 agreements; $21.4M value; 3 departments; 4 programs.

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6agreements
$21.4Mvalue
3departments
4programs

Largest agreements

511089$17.6Mvalue2016start2020end

Next Generation Space and Ground Processing System for Web-Based Distribution of Earth Observation Data Products from Dual Band SAR and Optical Sensor Payloads

Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology$2.0Mvalue2016start–end

This project entitled «A Dual Frequency, Fully Polarimetric, Digitally Beam Formed, Multichannel SAR Receiver Exciter» aims at advancing the state-of-the-art in the field of space-based radar imagery. The technology would allow the collection of larger amounts of radar image data in two frequency bands. This data would be processed faster and delivered to ground-based users at supercomputer speeds thereby yielding clearer and more detailed images. This technology would be the core element of UrtheCast's planned 16 satellite constellation.

  • Canadian Space Agency
  • Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology$600Kvalue2014start–end

This project entitled ""Dual L and X Band Active Planar Array Antenna for Space-based Radar"" aims to develop the design of a new Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) antenna capable of transmitting and receiving on both X and L bands simultaneously with a single aperture. This will include building a prototype subpanel to validate the performance. The targeted application for this technology is for a SAR payload deployed on the International Space Station.

  • Canadian Space Agency
  • Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology$600Kvalue2014start–end

This project entitled ""On-Board Autonomous Cross-Cueing of EO Sensor Systems for Maritime Domain Awareness and Tasking Optimization"" has the objective to develop a unique space-borne on-board autonomous cross-cueing and collection tasking system, allowing for optimized high-resolution optical image acquisition yields and downlink capacity utilizations. The operational applications for such a system would be low-latency ship detection and identification reporting, and cloud-free target imaging.

  • Canadian Space Agency
  • Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
Innovation Assistance Program$529Kvalue2020start2020end

The funding provided by the IAP program is intended to assist innovative small and medium-sized enterprises in the start-up phase that cannot access existing commercial support related to COVID-19.

Space qualification testing and analysis of commercial FPGA RF system on a chip$80.0Kvalue2018start2019end

The project objective is to test and analyze the radiation performance of an FPGA.

Departments

Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada1agreements$17.6Mvalue1programs
Canadian Space Agency3agreements$3.2Mvalue1programs
  • Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology

All grants from Canadian Space Agency

National Research Council Canada2agreements$609Kvalue2programs
  • Innovation Assistance Program
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms

All grants from National Research Council Canada

Years

20201agreements$529Kvalue1programs
  • Innovation Assistance Program
20181agreements$80.0Kvalue1programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
20162agreements$19.6Mvalue2programs
  • Strategic Aerospace and Defence Initiative
  • Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
20142agreements$1.2Mvalue1programs
  • Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology

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.