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April 30th, 2012

MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA)... A Double Dose Of Contracts (Business—Imagery—Comms)


[SatNews] MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (TSX: MDA) has signed a three year contract for CA$1.7 million to...

...provide RADARSAT-2 information to the Netherlands Space Office (NSO). The RADARSAT-2 information will be used to provide information for government users as well as scientific and research purposes. NSO was established by the Dutch Government in order to develop the Netherlands’ space program and to bring that program to action.

Additionally, MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (TSX: MDA has signed a contract with Sierra Nevada Corporation to provide...

...an engineering concept for a communications solution for the ongoing phase of NASA’s Commercial Crew Development program. This program aims at developing a reusable spacecraft to transport crew and critical cargo to the International Space Station and then return to Earth. If successful, this work could form the basis for an operational communications solution to be incorporated into the future reusable crew transportation spacecraft.