Western University is readying to deploy a vision system for future rover missions on the moon, building on to rover technology the Canadian Space Agency has been supporting for at least two decades.
Read More »CSA announces new contracts related to the Lunar Exploration Accelerator Program
The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) officially announced the first contracts related to Canada’s goal of being an important participant in the ongoing science and future commercialization of the Moon.
Read More »The Canadian Space Agency Funds Three Enabling Space Technologies
The Canadian Space Agency has awarded three of four contracts valued at $2.1 million (pre-tax) for their Development of enabling space technologies RFP.
Read More »Meet International Terranaut Daniel Schulten
Happy New Year and welcome to another podcast episode of Terranauts where we interview people that go to space all the time, without ever leaving the planet.
Read More »A Legend Passes – John Spencer MacDonald
On December 26, 2019 John Spencer MacDonald passed away at the age of 83. He will be remembered in part as the co-founder of Canada’s best known space company, MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates, known as MDA.
Read More »An Abridged History of MDA
Fifty years after MDA was founded as a private company it will be reverting back to being private, and not for the first time.
Read More »Maxar Sells MDA to a Consortium led by Toronto Based Northern Private Capital
The rumour had been floating for six months, so now that its happened, it shouldn’t come as shock that MDA has been sold, right?
Read More »The RADARSAT Constellation Mission Declared Operational
In a Tweet yesterday the Canadian Space Agency announced that the $1 billion program that is the RADARSAT Constellation Mission is now fully operational.
Read More »Magellan Aerospace and MDA Receive $2.2M RADARSAT Constellation Mission Service Contracts
The Canadian Space Agency has awarded three contracts, two to Magellan Aerospace and one to MDA, for the purpose of making sure the RADARSAT Constellation Mission remains in tip-top shape.
Read More »A Recap of the 2019 Canadian Space Summit
The annual Canadian Space Summit was an opportunity for stakeholders to get together to learn the latest from their colleagues and in the case of this years conference, the public unveiling of a new government conceived SatCom consortium.
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