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    MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Gets Follow-On Change Detection Tech Contract From NGA

    MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates has secured a potential $11.6 million follow-on contract from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency to provide a change detection system in support of NGA’s Foundation GEOINT. MDA said Monday it will continue to help the agency monitor the effects of climate change, identify facilities under construction and monitor urban sprawl, deforestation, wetlands loss and coastal expansion projects with the company’s Persistent […] More

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    MDA to Supply Grapple Fixtures for Japan Space Robotic Arm, Experiment Module

    MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates has received a contract from Japan’s national space agency to provide grapple fixtures that will work to support connections between the Japanese Experiment Module support equipment and the JEM Robotic Manipulator System. MDA said Tuesday the grapple fixtures are designed to operate with JEMRMS and some of its payloads as the robotic arm supports the JEM […] More

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    MDA to Continue Satellite Information Support to CLS & ScanEx Under Contract Extensions

    MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates will continue to provide RADARSAT-2 satellite information for Collecte Localisation Satellites and ScanEX Research and Development Centre through February 2017 and December 2019 respectively via two contract amendments. MDA said Wednesday CLS uses RADARSAT-2 imaging to monitor and detect illegal fishing vessels around the Kerguelen Islands in the southern Indian Ocean while ScanEX requires satellite information to monitor ice […] More

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    DigitalGlobe Taps MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates for Satellite Ground Station Subcontracts; Norman Hannaford Comments

    DigitalGlobe has awarded Richmond, Canada-based company MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates a pair of subcontracts to build ground station platforms for two international users of the former company’s satellite constellation. The ground stations will work to help international clients receive and process data and imagery from DigitalGlobe’s satellites, MDA said Tuesday. Norman Hannaford, general manager of ground station business […] More

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    Telesat Orders Comms Satellite From MDA’s Space Systems Loral Subsidiary

    Telesat has selected Space Systems Loral, a subsidiary of MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates, to produce a communications satellite for the satellite operator’s infrastructure in the Asia Pacific region. The Telstar 18 VANTAGE satellite will incorporate C- and Ku-band transponders and combine broad regional beams and high-throughput spot beams to help expand the company’s Asia Pacific […] More

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    MDA Corp. Wins DigitalGlobe WorldView-4 Ground Station Upgrade Contract

    MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates has secured a contract to introduce updates to DigitalGlobe’s international ground stations for customers to directly receive and process Earth imagery and geospatial data from DigitalGlobe’s future WorldView-4 commercial satellite. MDA said Thursday WorldView-4 is scheduled to launch in September 2016 to provide customers with multi-spectral images of the Earth’s surface. The company aims […] More

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    Orbital ATK to Supply Satellite Propellant Tanks to Space Systems/Loral; Dave Shanahan Comments

    Orbital ATK has received a five-year contract from a subsidiary of MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates to produce and supply flight sets of titanium propellant tanks for integration with a commercial communications satellite. Orbital ATK’s space components division in California will manufacture flight sets comprised of two liquid propellant tanks for Space Systems/Loral’s SSL 1300 satellites, Orbital […] More

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    MDA Subsidiary an Industrial Partner on Potential NASA Discovery Mission

    A subsidiary of MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates will support the research efforts of NASA‘s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and other institutions on the asteroid Psyche as an industrial partner on a potential Discovery mission. MDA said Thursday Space Systems/Loral will participate in work on concept design studies with Lindy Elkins-Tanton, principal investigator on the project and director of Arizona State University’s School […] More

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    Thierry Guillemin: Intelsat, Azercosmos, SSL Forge Comm Satellite Partnership

    Space Systems Loral, an MDA subsidiary, has been chosen to build a communications satellite for an Intelsat–Azercosmos alliance to deliver direct-to-home broadcasting and broadband connectivity services in some parts of the world. Intelsat and Azercosmos plan to launch an SSL-made satellite into an orbital location of 45 degrees East in an effort to provide communication services across […] More

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    Space Systems/Loral Awarded DARPA Robotic Satellite Assembly Research Contract

    A subsidiary of MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates will investigate ideas on how to robotically assemble communication satellites while in orbit under a contract with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. MDA said Wednesday Space Systems/Loral will carry out the study for five months under the initial phase of DARPA’s Dragonfly program, which seeks to launch larger geostationary […] More

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    MDA to Extend Support for ISS Robotic Servicing System

    MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates has received a $25.7 million contract modification from the Canadian space agency to continue its support for the Mobile Servicing System aboard the International Space Station. MDA said Tuesday the modification extends its support through the end of October 2017. The Canada-built Mobile Servicing System is a robotics suite that consists the Canadarm2, Mobile Base System […] More

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    MDA Lands Ground Station Support, Training Contract with Malaysian Agency

    MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. has been selected to build a satellite ground station and perform training services for Malaysia’s national remote sensing agency. The company will also supply information for the RADARSAT-2 satellite in preparation for the spacecraft’s operation scheduled in 2016, MDA said Tuesday. The ground station is designed to process RADARSAT-2 data […] More