What is the connection to Canadian technology/development with the Kepler space telescope?

One of this country's most notable achievements will be spending Canada Day weekend marking its own milestone anniversary in a unique place, floating up in space.

After 10 years in the ether, several times farther from Earth than the International Space Station, it remains the world's smallest space telescope.

MOST was also Canada's first-ever space telescope when it was launched into space on June 30, 2003.

It has helped make Canada a leader in the field of micro satellites.

But Matthews is particularly enthused about all the other possibilities that might be opened up by the 60-kilogram MOST.

The colorful University of British Columbia astrophysicist firmly believes there is life outside our solar system.

"Certainly simple forms of life like microbial life is probably very common — and I hope complex life," Matthews said in a recent interview. "If it's out there, we're finding the places where it's most likely to live."

I have no Idea if this helps but hope it does.