View pictures, taken from space, of select areas across Canada. Identify landmarks such as rivers, forests and even golf courses!

Learn about Canada's role in the development of an international satellite system that helps save lives by providing alert and location information to search-and-rescue services throughout the world.

Follow the development of a major space observatory, the James Web Space Telescope, as Canada contributes to the international effort to launch this telescope in 2013.

Learn about MOST, a Canadian project to create an astronomical space telescope capable of measuring the ages of stars in our galaxy and perhaps even unlocking mysteries of the universe itself.

Try our Remote Sensing tutorials

Learn about a sophisticated Earth observation satellite, RADARSAT-1, launched in 1995 and capable of taking pictures of Earth at any time of day, in any weather.

Watch the progress of RADARSAT-2, a radar satellite that is due to launch in summer 2007.

Learn about the three types of satellites - earth-observation, communications and scientific - and see Canadian examples of each type. The site provides virtual tours, image galleries and background detail for each satellite.

Images that offer a wealth of information.

Prepare to learn about the evolution of galaxies with this observatory! It has three sensitive scientific instruments and was launched on May 14, 2009.