Albertans in SpaceAlberta’s space community · 10 featured so far
Alberta is already part of this story.
Student teams with satellites in orbit, companies building for the Moon, a rocketry club, an observatory in the foothills. One corner of Alberta’s space world often doesn’t know the people two corners away. Here they are in one place.
01Students and universities
The student team behind Ex-Alta 1, Alberta's first satellite, deployed from the International Space Station in 2017.
A student-led organization that built FrontierSat and saw it launched to orbit in May 2026.
Rothney Astrophysical Observatory
University of Calgary
An observatory in the foothills southwest of Calgary that teaches the public about the night sky and light pollution.
Meteorite collection
University of Alberta
Curated by planetary geologist Dr. Chris Herd, and where to start if you think you've found a meteorite.
Calgary Institute for the Humanities
University of Calgary
Scholars asking what our stories about the sky mean for how we go into space.
02Companies
3D printing for extreme environments, space included, and a competitor at NASA's LunaRecycle Challenge.
A company working on how resources beyond Earth can be developed, from technology to law.
A startup whose Earth-observation technology helped put Alberta on the global space industry map.
03Clubs and organizations
Calgary Rocketry
Calgary
A club where Albertans build and fly their own rockets, and learn to do it safely.
Working to strengthen Canada's space economy.
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This list grows with every episode. If your team, company, club or class is doing something in Alberta that touches space, we’d like to hear about it.