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Canadian Space Agency

The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) is Canada's national space agency, headquartered at the John H. Chapman Space Centre in Longueuil, Quebec, and reporting through the Minister of Industry. ^[1]^[2] CSA's primary Earth observation role is public mission ownership and programme stewardship around the RADARSAT line. ^[3] RADARSAT-1 is retired, and RADARSAT-2 was co-funded by CSA with data-credit access rather than a CSA-operated ownership model. ^[4]^[5] The RADARSAT Constellation Mission is a three-satellite Canadian government mission launched in 2019. ^[6] CSA's 2023 annual budget was CA$615.4M. ^[1]

Operates

RADARSAT-1Ended
Launched 1995-11-04 / Sun-synchronous, 798 km class, 98.6 deg inclination
RADARSAT Constellation MissionOperational
Launched 2019-06-12 / SSO 586-615 km, 97.74 deg inclination / 500 km swath

Sources

[1]Canadian Space Agency, Wikipediacommunity2026-06-20
[2]Minister and senior leaders, Canadian Space Agencyagency doc2026-10-19
[3]RADARSAT program, Canadian Space Agencyagency doc2026-06-20
[4]Radarsat-1, Wikipediacommunity2026-06-20
[5]About RADARSAT-2, Canadian Space Agencyagency doc2026-06-20
[6]RADARSAT Constellation Mission, Canadian Space Agencyagency doc2026-06-20
[7]Canadian Space Agency, Britannicacommunity2026-06-20

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@misc{eoatlas:companies:csa-asc,
  title = {Canadian Space Agency},
  author = {{EO-Atlas}},
  publisher = {SpectraWorks B.V.},
  note = {CC BY 4.0},
  url = {https://eo-atlas.org/companies/csa-asc}
}