Canadian Space Agency
What Canadian Space Agency spent in fiscal year 2025-26: its net expenditure by standard object, from the Public Accounts of Canada, Volume II.
Reports through Innovation, Science and Economic Development; the overview shows it in that ministry.
Spending, 2025-26
Net spending, 2025-26
$1.16B
spent by Canadian Space Agency, less revenues it kept
Share, 2025-26
0.2%
of the net spending of every federal organization
How did Canadian Space Agency spend its budget in 2025-26?
By standard object. Revenues it kept are negative and netted against its spending. Transfer payments are broken into their largest named programs.
Spending by standard object, 2025-26
Transfer payments
Professional and special services
Personnel
Acquisition of machinery and equipment
Transportation and communications
Rentals
Information
Other subsidies and payments
Repair and maintenance
Utilities, materials and supplies
$598M
$383M
$138M
$16.6M
$8.5M
$6M
$3M
$2.9M
$2.6M
$1.9M
Total: $1.16B.
Workforce, 2025-26
Personnel spending
$138M
salaries, wages and benefits (the personnel standard object)
A full-time equivalent is a measure of employment, not a headcount: two half-time employees are one FTE. Personnel spending includes benefits and pension contributions, so per FTE it is not an average salary.
Transfer payment programs, 2025-26
The grants, contributions and other transfers Canadian Space Agency paid, program by program: $598M in all, against $598M for the transfer payments object above (the Public Accounts publish the two tables separately).
| Contributions to the Canada/European Space Agency Cooperation AgreementPayments | Contribution | $562,926,288 |
| Class Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and TechnologyPayments | Contribution | $23,698,414 |
| Class Grant Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and TechnologyPayments | Grant | $11,408,951 |
| 3 programs | $598,033,653 | |
Contracts of $10,000 and under
Contracts this small are not published one by one: Treasury Board publishes each organization's totals, by calendar year, for contracts of $10,000 and under (their original value and their amendments) and for acquisition card purchases. They are the value of contracts entered into, not what was paid in a fiscal year, so they are not part of the net expenditure above, and the years are calendar years.
| Calendar year | Goods | Services | Construction | Acquisition cards | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $190,238 | $86,797 | $40,690 | $1,490,554 | $1,808,279 |
| 2024 | $214,517 | $224,316 | $56,151 | $2,798,527 | $3,293,511 |
| 2023 | $305,614 | $465,980 | $24,070 | $3,262,984 | $4,058,647 |
| 2022 | $224,351 | $356,188 | $49,779 | $2,697,699 | $3,328,017 |
| 2021 | $199,931 | $387,384 | $187,414 | $1,913,539 | $2,688,268 |
| 2020 | $234,492 | $484,848 | $58,573 | $1,702,241 | $2,480,154 |
| 2018 | $458,427 | $773,975 | $97,330 | $2,035,049 | $3,364,781 |
| 2017 | $432,196 | $506,930 | $54,058 | $2,619,266 | $3,612,451 |
Canadian Space Agency’s share of federal net spending
Other organizations in Innovation, Science and Economic Development
- Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada
- Prairies Economic Development Canada
- National Research Council Canada
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
- Statistics Canada
- Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions
- Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency
- Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario
- Pacific Economic Development Agency of Canada
- Destination Canada
- Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency
- Federal Economic Development Agency for Northern Ontario
- Standards Council of Canada
- Copyright Board Canada
Sources
- Public Accounts of Canada 2026, Volume II: Ministerial expenditures by standard object (Table 3)
- Public Accounts of Canada, Volume II: Transfer payments (multi-year open data)
- Proactive Publication - Contracts: Aggregated Total - Contracts $10K and under
Department figures are net expenditure (Public Accounts, Volume II), which doesn’t add up to the accrual expenses of the overview’s headline. See the methodology.
