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Three months into his new job as the Group President of MDA in Canada and Mike Greenley is very busy shaping the 49 year old company to the realities of today, including ways to spur growth in a tough domestic market.

The satellite manufacturing market for larger geostationary orbit (GEO) satellites has been lagging these past few years, so the announcement of two GEO contracts by SSL, a Maxar subsidiary, is welcome news for the company.

Maxar recently held its 2018 investor days. The purpose? Sell institutional investors on why the company now known as Maxar Technologies, formed from MDA, SSL, Digitalglobe and Radiant, is a company going places.  The message, institutional investors should have a larger Maxar position in their portfolios and they should market the company to their clients.  

Yesterdays spacewalk successfully completed a choreographed series of movements over three spacewalks since last fall to swap MDA built Latching End Effector’s (LEE) from the Canadarm2 to its Mobile Base System and stow one for a return to Earth.

The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) has awarded a total of $1.5 million for two projects related to future human exploration in the vicinity of the moon and Mars.

When the Canadarm2 was built engineers made sure that it could get software updates even though it designed almost 20 years ago using what we would now consider outdated hardware.

The communication problem first experienced when astronauts replaced an ageing Latching End Effector (LEE) on the Canadarm2 last Tuesday seemed solved after it was installed a second time. That apparently is not the case, and mission managers have decided to remove the newly installed LEE and replace it with the one it just replaced.

The first of two scheduled spacewalks by astronauts on the international space station went almost by the book and succeeded in replacing an aged Latching End Effector on the Canadarm2.

In two planned spacewalks, astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) will install a new Canadian made Latching End Effector (LEE), or robotic hand, on the Canadarm2, replacing its ageing counterpart.

NASA has scheduled spacewalks on January 23rd and 29th to replace another degraded Canadarm2 hand on the International Space Station (ISS).