{"id":292113,"date":"2025-11-19T00:29:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T00:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/292113\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T00:29:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T00:29:05","slug":"canada-announces-massive-jump-in-funding-to-european-space-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/292113\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada announces massive jump in funding to European Space Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">OTTAWA (Reuters) -Canada, seeking tighter ties with the \u200bEuropean Union, will boost its \u200cinvestment in European Space Agency programs by C$528.5 \u200cmillion ($377.96 million), a tenfold increase compared to previous contributions, a top cabinet member said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Canadian \u2060Prime Minister Mark \u200cCarney, who won an April election on the back of a \u200dpromise to diversify the economy in the face of U.S. tariffs, is pressing \u200bfor tighter defense and security relations with \u200cthe EU.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">The money will be spent over a three to five year period. In a statement, Industry Minister Melanie Joly said the investment would advance research and \u2060development of Canadian-made \u200bspace technologies for both \u200bcivilian and defense purposes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">These include satellite communications, Earth observation, space \u200dexploration, \u2060positioning, navigation and timing, and space situational awareness, she said.\u2060<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">($1 = 1.3983 Canadian dollars)<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">\u200c(Reporting by David Ljunggren; \u200cEditing by Chris Reese)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OTTAWA (Reuters) -Canada, seeking tighter ties with the \u200bEuropean Union, will boost its \u200cinvestment in European Space Agency&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[49,48,11030,6816,5046,66,306],"class_list":["post-292113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-european-space-agency","tag-european-union","tag-prime-minister-mark-carney","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}