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Honeywell is a global company with over 130,000 employees of which about 3600 are based in Canada. In 2015 the company announced it was acquiring Cambridge, Ontario based COM DEV. It was seen as a smart move at the time.

Honeywell Aerospace recently opened a local incubator, dubbed the “Greenhouse”, to reduce the cost and time to create technologies for small satellites, the company said Tuesday (Feb. 26) at an announcement at an office on Elgin Street.

The Canadian Space Agency has awarded two QEYSSat Phase A contracts to Neptec and COM DEV as Canada looks to establish a space based satellite quantum encryption capability.

Lost in the noise of a possible trade war with our closet ally the U.S., is the fact that the Conservative Party has decided to take notice and complain about the ongoing wait for a new space strategy. The attention is in the form of a letter obtained by SpaceQ from Conservative MP Matt Jeneroux of Edmonton Riverbend, the official opposition critic for science in the …

While exactEarth’s chief executive remains coy about how the “strategic alternative” search is going, he says the Earth observation company picked its timing carefully to look at a possible sale, merger or other activity to maximize shareholder value.

The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) has awarded a $1.534 million to COM DEV (Honeywell Canada) for a Focal Plane Array for Coastal & Inland Water Color Hyperspectral Imager as part of the Space Technology Development Program.

The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) late last week issued two contracts totalling over $600K for two studies. The contracts were awarded to Euroconsult and COM DEV (Honeywell Canada).

In late July, the news publication the Waterloo Region Record ran a story about layoffs by Honeywell at its Cambridge, Ontario facility. The number of people laid off was not disclosed at the time. However, local radio station News 570 reported on September 1 that 140 people had started to receive notice in late July.  Scott Sayres, Honeywell Director of Communications told SpaceQ that the …

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