The Canadian Space Agency has confirmed a west Ottawa spacecraft laboratory it calls “Canada’s national facility for spacecraft assembly [and] integration” is closing at the end of March 2025.
Well that’s depressing.
At this point the only place I get my hope from these days is scientific advancement.
I was thinking the same. All the news now a days is all doom and gloom.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The David Florida Laboratory officially opened in 1972 in the Shirley’s Bay complex off Carling Avenue.
It’s one of the few complexes in the world that can simulate conditions of a rocket launch and space flight, according to the agency.
Work on the Canadarm and the guidance sensor for the James Webb Space Telescope was carried out there, and the lab continues to provide “ongoing support for Canada’s contribution to the International Space Station Program.”
The “achievements” section of the lab’s website lists 41 wins over 50 years on subjects such as tracking asteroids, communications technology for Japan and Spain, life on Mars and monitoring changes to Earth’s surface water.
Answering an email from CBC on Friday, a space agency spokesperson said the lab is scheduled to close March 31, 2025, after several months of winding down.
The lab is named after C. David Florida who worked on experimental communications satellites and was director of the Canadian National Space Telecommunications Laboratory when he died in 1971.
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