The trial is now underway for Wanping Zheng, a former engineer at the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), who faces charges of breach of trust for allegedly working on behalf of a Chinese space company outside of his duties.
Mr. Zheng was charged on Dec. 7, 2021, following an RCMP investigation into his activities extracurricular to his CSA responsibilities. He is accused of leveraging his position as a CSA engineer to negotiate agreements for the installation of satellite station facilities in Iceland on behalf of Spacety China, officially known as the Changsha Tianyi Space Science and Technology Research Institute.
