Science Community Topical Teams 2023 Report on Space Astronomy, Planetary Science and Astronaut Health

This report presents the outcome of a broad transparent community consultation in space astronomy (in four (4) sub-disciplines), planetary science (in five (5) sub-disciplines), and astronaut health. With the support of the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), topical teams (TT) were formed through a competitive process, with terms and condition on the teams’ composition and deliverables. The deliverable from each team was a community generated report of priorities in their respective scientific discipline. This resulted in ten (10) topical teams, with memberships totaling over 400 experts from 35 organizations. Each team was led (chaired) by Canadian academia, and included representations from students, post-doctoral fellows and industry. To assist this broad consultation, the Canadian Space Exploration Workshop (CSEW) was held from 14 to 16 June 2022, with discussion sessions led by the topical team Chairs, preceded by an open Call for Ideas for collecting community input. The objective of the initiative was to engage each topical team to produce a consensus report that addressed their related science, with common prioritization criteria based upon scientific merit, importance to the community, and benefits to Canada. At the end of this initiative, all the topical teams delivered documents were consolidated and became this ten (10)-chapter document, over 200-pages, describing the science investigations and desired pathways in detail for each sub-discipline. This report may be used as a reference to guide potential future CSA space science investments to ensure that they are aligned with community priorities.

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• Astronaut Health Access
• Economics and Industry
• Planetary Science
• Report
• Science Community
• Science and Technology
• Space Astronomy
• Topical Teams

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• Maturity Level 1 (46%)
• Maturity Level 2 (23%)
• Maturity Level 3 (0%)
• Maturity Level 4 (0%)
• Maturity Level 5 (0%)
• Maturity Level 6 (0%)

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Last Updated	October 20, 2025, 02:31 (UTC)
Created	October 20, 2025, 02:31 (UTC)
Domain / Topic Domain or topic of the dataset being cataloged.
Title Title for the Dataset.	Science Community Topical Teams 2023 Report on Space Astronomy, Planetary Science and Astronaut Health
Description A description of the dataset.	This report presents the outcome of a broad transparent community consultation in space astronomy (in four (4) sub-disciplines), planetary science (in five (5) sub-disciplines), and astronaut health. With the support of the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), topical teams (TT) were formed through a competitive process, with terms and condition on the teams’ composition and deliverables. The deliverable from each team was a community generated report of priorities in their respective scientific discipline. This resulted in ten (10) topical teams, with memberships totaling over 400 experts from 35 organizations. Each team was led (chaired) by Canadian academia, and included representations from students, post-doctoral fellows and industry. To assist this broad consultation, the Canadian Space Exploration Workshop (CSEW) was held from 14 to 16 June 2022, with discussion sessions led by the topical team Chairs, preceded by an open Call for Ideas for collecting community input. The objective of the initiative was to engage each topical team to produce a consensus report that addressed their related science, with common prioritization criteria based upon scientific merit, importance to the community, and benefits to Canada. At the end of this initiative, all the topical teams delivered documents were consolidated and became this ten (10)-chapter document, over 200-pages, describing the science investigations and desired pathways in detail for each sub-discipline. This report may be used as a reference to guide potential future CSA space science investments to ensure that they are aligned with community priorities.
Tags / Keywords Keywords/tags categorizing the dataset.	Astronaut Health Access Economics and Industry Planetary Science Report Science Community Science and Technology Space Astronomy Topical Teams
Format (CSV, XLS, TXT, PDF, etc) File format of the dataset.
Dataset Size Dataset size in megabytes.
Metadata Identifier Metadata identifier – can be used as the unique identifier for catalogue entry
Published Date Published date of the dataset.	2025-06-04
Time Period Data Span (start date) Start date of the data in the dataset.
Time Period Data Span (end date) End date of time data in the dataset.
GeoSpatial Area Data Span A spatial region or named place the dataset covers.

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Access category Type of access granted for the dataset (open, closed, service, etc).
License License used to access the dataset.	Open Government Licence - Canada
Limits on use Limits on use of data.
Location Location of the dataset.	https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/520fe919-0868-4086-ba3f-1964b80ec26c
Data Service Data service for accessing a dataset.
Owner Owner of the dataset.	Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
Contact Point Who to contact regarding access?
Contact Point Email The email to contact regarding access?
Publisher Publisher of the dataset.
Publisher Email Email of the publisher.
Author Author of the dataset.
Author Email Email of the author.
Accessed At Date the data and metadata was accessed.

Field	Value
Identifier Unique identifier for the dataset.
Language Language(s) of the dataset
Link to dataset description A URL to an external document describing the dataset.
Persistent Identifier Data is identified by a persistent identifier.
Globally Unique Identifier Data is identified by a persistent and globally unique identifier.
Contains data about individuals Does the data hold data about individuals?
Contains data about identifiable individuals Does the data hold identifiable data about individual?
Contains Indigenous Data Does the data hold data about Indigenous communities?
Portal Type Platform type of the source portal.

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Version Version of the datatset	None
Source Source of the dataset.	None
Version notes Version notes about the dataset.
Is version of another dataset Link to dataset that it is a version of.
Other versions Link to datasets that are versions of it.
Provenance Text Provenance Text of the data.
Provenance URL Provenance URL of the data.
Temporal resolution Describes how granular the date/time data in the dataset is.
GeoSpatial resolution in meters Describes how granular (in meters) geospatial data is in the dataset.
GeoSpatial resolution (in regions) Describes how granular (in regions) geospatial data is in the dataset.

Field	Value
Indigenous Community Permission Who holds the Indigenous Community Permission. Who to contact regarding access to a dataset that has data about Indigenous communities.
Community Permission Community permission (who gave permission).
The Indigenous communities the dataset is about Indigenous communities from which data is derived.

Field	Value
Number of data rows If tabular dataset, total number of rows.
Number of data columns If tabular dataset, total number of unique columns.
Number of data cells If tabular dataset, total number of cells with data.
Number of data relations If RDF dataset, total number of triples.
Number of entities If RDF dataset, total number of entities.
Number of data properties If RDF dataset, total number of unique properties used by the triples.
Data quality Describes the quality of the data in the dataset.
Metric for data quality A metric used to measure the quality of the data, such as missing values or invalid formats.

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