NGC Aerospace is a Canadian SME specializing in Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC) systems for autonomous vehicles. They design and deploy artificial vision, algorithms, simulators, and real-time software to enhance the autonomy, performance, reliability, and safety of space, aeronautical, and terrestrial vehicles. NGC's primary customers include international and national space agencies, governmental bodies, and North American and European aerospace companies, and they've contributed to missions such as ESA's PROBA-3.
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CRC has partnered with five Canadian companies, including Eagle Flight Network, NGC Aerospace, Mission Control, Moon and Mars Industries, and Launch Canada.
NGC Aerospace Ltd. will receive lunar imagery from ispace Mission 1 to test a planetary navigation system similar to GPS.
The Canadian Space Agency funded Canadensys Aerospace Corporation, Mission Control, and NGC Aerospace Ltd. under the Lunar Exploration Accelerator Program.
NGC Aerospace Ltd. will use imagery from ispace Mission 1 to prepare a future mission in which the planetary navigation system will guide and support the safe landing of a lunar vehicle in a precise location.
NGC Aerospace Ltd. will test a navigation system that will take images of the moon from orbit and compare them to maps to provide precise locations.
NGC Aerospace Ltd. and ispace signed a Memorandum of Understanding under which ispace will utilize a camera to acquire lunar imagery data for demonstration of NGC’s crater-based autonomous navigation system during ispace’s Mission 1.
NGC Aerospace Ltd. will demonstrate a navigation system as part of its CA$3,300,000 contract.
The Canadian Space Agency issued contracts worth CA$3,300,000 on 2020-10-29 to Canadensys Aerospace Corporation and NGC Aerospace Ltd. for development of lunar technology payloads.