On the eve of 2020, followers of the Canadian space industry were greeted with exciting news. Northern Private Capital, a Toronto-based investment consortium, had reclaimed a national asset by buying MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA) for an eye-popping $1 billion.
Read More »The RADARSAT program and Synthetic Aperture Radar
Canada is a technology leader when it comes to Synthetic Aperture Radar and has decades of experience through the RADARSAT programs.
Read More »Western University readies rover tech for lunar leap
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.
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