The Canadian Space Agency just signed a broad memorandum of understanding with Axiom.
, which has yet to launch on its uncrewed test flight to lunar orbit as NASA troubleshoots technical glitches., But that was not for the CSA. Rather, Canadian entrepreneur Mark Pathy paid for a seat aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft, joining two other commercial spaceflyers and a former NASA astronaut for more than two weeks in orbit. Canada has agreed to supply a robotic arm, called Canadarm3, on NASA's Gateway lunar space station.
Axiom has also been building up its robotics experience through two agreements now with MDA, which supplies Canadarm2 to the International Space Station, along with the Dextre handy robot. Axiom and MDA have announced two sales of robotic interfaces based on Canadarm3 technology, the latest of which was also announced this week at IAC.
Axiom's MOU with CSA seeks to build up Canadian work in space generally, as it aims to"leverage the existing and robust Canadian space ecosystem to mutually develop opportunities for Canadian companies across numerous sectors and industries to work and conduct research in lowCanada has a small manufacturing and medical science sector also seeking opportunities for research, which may increase with the maturation of the Artemis program and the expansion of commercial research generally...
These fields of research match industry priorities already established by the Canadian government under itsTo be sure, Canadians have flown in space through alternate pathways than CSA before Pathy paid for his trip with Axiom. For example, astronaut Andrew Feustel, who helped service theCanadian billionaire Guy Laliberté paid for a trip to the International Space Station aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft in 2009.
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