35 Satellites & Spacecraft companies in Canada

Canadian space company in Bolton, Ontario — prime contractor for Canada's first lunar rover and maker of space cameras and lunar systems.

Saint-Lazare, Quebec R&D firm building spaceflight hardware: solar power subsystems, solar cell simulators and spacecraft charging monitors.

Operates the EarthDaily Agro satellite constellation for daily global geospatial intelligence — provides daily 3m resolution Earth observation data for agriculture, forestry and…

Canadian space computing company — designs intelligent satellites and edge-compute platforms for real-time onboard AI processing of Earth observation data.

Canadian Earth observation company — operates a constellation of satellites measuring methane and greenhouse gas emissions from industrial sites.

Cambridge, Ontario space hardware site of Honeywell (ex-COM DEV) — makes RF/microwave and optical subsystems for satellites.

Canadian aerospace manufacturer producing complex aerostructures, engine components and space systems — supplier to Pratt & Whitney, Rolls-Royce, Boeing and major space programs.

Canadian space technology company — develops robotic systems, satellites and Earth observation solutions.

Canadian spacecraft hardware maker — builds reaction wheels, rate measurement units and complete microsatellites for small satellite missions.

Develops a commercial space situational awareness satellite constellation — the first space-based SSA network providing collision avoidance and space traffic management data to …

Canadian space engineering firm — holds IP and build-ready designs for space systems including commercial communication satellites, rovers and robotics.

Montreal company building fast-build LEO microsatellites and small GEO platforms, payloads and ground segments for defence and civil missions.

Canadian small-satellite developer — commercial successor to the University of Toronto's Space Flight Laboratory, building microsatellite buses and missions such as HawkEye 360 …

Canadian satellite operator and LEO constellation developer — operates geostationary satellites and building Telesat Lightspeed, a 198-satellite LEO constellation for enterprise…

Provides Earth observation data and analytics services — operates imaging payloads on the International Space Station and develops the UrtheDaily and OptiSAR constellation missi…

University of Alberta student satellite team — designs, builds and operates CubeSats such as Ex-Alta 1 and Ex-Alta 2 from its Edmonton campus.

University of Calgary student space team — built FrontierSat (CTS-SAT-1), Calgary's first student-built CubeSat carrying a mini plasma imager.

New Brunswick university CubeSat programme led by UNB with Université de Moncton and NBCC — built the VIOLET space-weather CubeSat deployed in 2024.

Western University research institute for Earth and space exploration — successor to its planetary science centre, running research, training and a CubeSat project.

Concordia University space institute at the Gina Cody School — research and training in propulsion, spacecraft systems, robotics and human health in space.

Simon Fraser University student CubeSat team in Burnaby — co-develops the ALEASAT disaster-relief imaging 1U CubeSat with UBC Orbit under ESA Fly Your Satellite.

University of British Columbia student satellite design team — 50+ students designing and developing CubeSat missions in Vancouver.

University of Toronto aerospace research institute — hosts space robotics, spacecraft dynamics and microsatellite research groups in Toronto.

University of Saskatchewan student space design team — builders of RADSAT-SK, the first satellite made in Saskatchewan, and of planetary rovers.

Builds a LEO satellite network for in-space connectivity — provides store-and-forward and real-time data relay services for other satellites and IoT devices in orbit.

Canadian launch startup — develops the Taiga suborbital and Tundra orbital rockets, the Athena satellite bus and the Atlantic Spaceport Complex in Newfoundland.

Canadian quantum communications startup — develops a low-cost microsatellite network for space-based quantum key distribution, funded by the Canadian Space Agency.

Canadian space hardware startup — develops satellite attitude and precision pointing hardware for small spacecraft and space instruments.

Montreal startup developing laser power-beaming infrastructure (LightGrid satellites, LightPort receivers) to power assets on the Moon.

Polytechnique Montréal student society building CubeSats and planetary rovers and running space-technology education activities.

Student design team at the University of Toronto — builds rockets and CubeSats such as the FINCH hyperspectral nanosatellite mission.

University of Waterloo student satellite design team — develops CubeSat hardware and open-source onboard flight software.

Canada's space agency — develops space robotics (Canadarm), Earth observation satellites and supports astronaut programmes.

ÉTS Montréal research laboratory working on space technologies, resilient GNSS navigation, avionics and embedded systems, including CubeSat projects.

Canadian space environmental test provider — offers turnkey testing services and expertise to small satellite and space component developers.