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Spending program

Space Exploration

Canadian Space Agency · Research and science

Headline figures

Fiscal year 2024–25

$388M

6.5% of Research and science spending in 2024–25.

Up $178M from $210M in 2023–24.

$12.96per tax filer$9.44per person

Per tax filer uses 29,965,100 tax filers (2023, the latest count published); per person uses a population of 41,162,593 (2024). An allocation of cost, not a tax bill.

Space Exploration, by fiscal year

Source and basis

  • GC InfoBase - Open Datasets, retrieved 2026-11-03. Open Government Licence - Canada.
  • Actual spending reported by the department for this program, reconciled to Public Accounts expenditures by vote. Includes operating costs, capital and payments to others.

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