MDA Space wants to stop sending its satellites abroad to be launched. Every spacecraft the company builds and tests in Montreal now leaves the country to reach orbit, Melissa Quinn told a room of student engineers in Timmins, Ont., on Saturday.
Quinn is senior director of corporate development at MDA Space and, on secondment, vice-president of spaceport operations at Maritime Launch Services. MDA paid $10 million for a stake in Maritime Launch last November and took the board seat that came with it. “Part of that investment was me,” she said.
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