Survey: Securing outer space
Castanet Staff – July 22, 2022 / 9:45 pm | History: 376879
Photo: The Canadian Press
The newest branch of the Royal Canadian Air Force is focused on extraterrestrial matters.
The reorganization of the existing space-focused team will now be known as 3 Canadian Space Division with the brigade gen. Mike Adamson in command.
Defense Minister Anita Anand calls space a “critical area for national security” and says the division is part of building a military that can meet “tomorrow’s threats.”
Over the next few years, the division will expand to employ about 175 people, nearly doubling the number of positions in the previous iteration, the General Director Space.
Canada is part of the Combined Space Operations Initiative, along with six allied countries, which published a document in February outlining its vision for the next decade.
Canada argues that space capabilities are used in communications, navigation, weather services, remote sensing, Earth observation and financial transactions, and that some countries have the ability to cut off access to these critical functions.
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