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MDA Space has won a new contract with the Canadian Space Agency worth C$44.7 million.
MDA Space reported third quarter revenue of 410 million Canadian dollars ($292 million), up 45% year-over-year.
MDA Space is delayed in delivering Globalstar’s constellation refresh, pushing the first launch to 2026.
When completed, MDA Space’s expanded Montreal facility will be the world’s largest high-volume manufacturing facility in its satellite class.
Under Mike Greenley’s leadership, MDA Space is developing next-generation commercial space products to address communication satellites and networks, Earth and space observation, and space exploration and infrastructure.
After Apple agreed in 2022 to cover most of the costs to replenish Globalstar’s constellation, Globalstar awarded MDA a $327,000,000 contract to build 17 satellites.
MDA is expanding production facilities in Montreal with the aim of having the capacity to produce two satellites a day.
In 2013 MDA became the first commercial customer to launch on SpaceX’s Falcon 9.
MDA became the first commercial customer to launch on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 in 2013.
Rocket Lab is developing a growing list of complete satellites that includes a $143,000,000 subcontract from MDA to lead the design and manufacture of 17 spacecraft buses for Globalstar’s new LEO satellites.
MDA plans to double its United Kingdom team to 80 employees in the next 12 months.
Redwire and MDA won contracts on 2022-06-07 to each produce 42 tactical communications antennas for U.S. military satellites in low Earth orbit.
On 2022-02-24, Globalstar selected MDA and Rocket Lab to supply 17 satellites to replenish its constellation after a potential customer agreed to fund most of the $327,000,000 project.
MDA Ltd. reported full-year 2021 gross profit of $167.8 million, up 43% compared to 2020.
MDA Ltd. reported fourth-quarter 2021 gross profit of $45.4 million, up 59% compared to the same period in 2020.
The conflict put plans to launch Lybid, a communications satellite for Ukraine built by Canada’s MDA Corp., on hold.
Under the 2015–2016 process, RADARSAT-2 images were downloaded to MDA, sent to the Canadian military for review, approved by Canadian diplomats, passed to the Canadian embassy in Kyiv, and then forwarded to the Ukrainian government.
The Senate Appropriations Committee criticized MDA’s plan to launch HBTSS payloads on separate satellites instead of hosting them aboard SDA’s Tracking Layer Tranche 0 satellites.
MDA Ltd. filed paperwork on 2021-03-22 to pursue an initial public offering of stock to raise funding to pay down debt and invest in new projects.
Under contracts announced on 2020-11-17, MDA will deliver a suite of advanced robot control software and interfaces to assist with assembly and servicing tasks expected to be performed for the first time on the OSAM-1 mission.