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Space Flight Laboratory

Tuesday, July 18th, 2017

Norway Successfully Launches Microsatellites Built by Toronto’s Space Flight Laboratory

The Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) announced today the successful launch of two Norwegian microsatellites developed and built by SFL for the Norwegian Space Centre with support from the Norwegian Coastal Authority, Space Norway, and the European Space Agency. The Soyuz-2.1a rocket carrying the satellites into orbit launched from Baikonur at 06:36:49 UTC Friday 14 July

Thursday, April 27th, 2017

Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) to Discuss Remote Sensing SmallSat Missions at IAA Berlin

Space Flight Laboratory (SFL), a provider of complete microspace missions, will present papers on the successful GHGSat-D greenhouse gas monitoring and CanX-7 aircraft tracking nanosatellite missions next week in Berlin, Germany, at the 11th IAA Symposium on Small Satellites for Earth Observation. SFL, which is based at the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies

Friday, March 31st, 2017

Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) Nanosatellite Validates Aircraft Tracking, Prepares for Deorbit Demo

TORONTO, Ontario, Canada – The CanX-7 nanosatellite built by Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) at the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies (UTIAS) has validated real-time detection and tracking of aircraft by satellite in low-Earth orbit. The next mission phase will begin in early May with deployment of drag sails developed by SFL to accelerate