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RICHMOND, BC, April 26, 2013 /CNW/ - MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. ("MDA" or the "Company") (TSX: MDA), a global communications and information company, announced today that it has signed contracts totaling CA$3.2 million with the Government of Canada's Department of National Defence (DND) to provide operations for the east and west coast RADARSAT-2 ground systems that support the deliverables under the Polar Epsilon project, the broad-area surveillance system delivered...

RICHMOND, BC, March 18, 2013 /CNW/ - MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. ("MDA") (TSX: MDA), a global communications and information company, announced today that it has signed a multi-million dollar contract with Accent Micro Technologies Inc. (AMTI) to provide digital elevation products using RADARSAT-2 information to the University of the Philippines. Covering the entire Philippines, over 300,000 square kilometers of digital elevation products will be provided within a six...

RICHMOND, BC, Jan. 9, 2013 /CNW/ - MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (TSX: MDA), a provider of essential information solutions, today announced the signing of a $706 million contract with the Canadian Space Agency to build, launch and provide initial operations for the RADARSAT Constellation Mission (RCM). The contract is expected to extend over a period of seven years and brings MDA's current backlog to approximately $2.9 billion. "This is exciting news," said Daniel...

RICHMOND, BC, Oct. 31, 2012 /CNW/ - MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (TSX: MDA), a provider of essential information solutions, announced today that it has signed a multi-million dollar contract with DigitalGlobe, Inc. to develop a solution to allow two of the U.S. Air Force's (USAF) mobile ground systems, called Eagle Vision, to receive and process imagery from WorldView-1 and WorldView-2 satellites. MDA's solution will enhance the USAF's ability to provide near real-time...

RICHMOND, BC, Sept. 17, 2012 /CNW/ - MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (TSX: MDA), a provider of essential information solutions, announced today that it has signed a multi-million dollar sole source delivery order under its Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity contract with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. The delivery order is for the provision of RADARSAT-2 information to be used by the National Ice Center in creating ice charts supporting environmental...

VANCOUVER, May 17, 2012 /CNW/ - In 2008, The Canadian government blocked the sale of the satellite business of Radarsat lead contractor MacDonald Dettwiler. The move was the first time in the twenty-three year history of the Investment Canada Act that the federal government blocked a foreign takeover because of a failure of the "net benefit" test. Today with Radarsat funding in limbo, Macdonald Dettwiler is facing major layoffs. Is the Harper Government underestimating the...

RICHMOND, BC, March 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (TSX: MDA), a provider of essential information solutions, announced today that the Company has made a preliminary assessment of the Canadian federal budget released yesterday.  It has concluded that the budget does not include the funds required to continue the RADARSAT Constellation Mission (RCM) as currently envisioned.  At this time MDA is uncertain on the way forward on Phase D of RCM and...

Oceans cover much of our planet and they are difficult to keep under surveillance, with the trafficking of people, unlicensed fishing and piracy adding to the problem. Satellites, however, can help keep the seas safe.Satellites monitor the entire planet and are an obvious component of an improved surveillance system.Satellite imagery can be used to locate and track vessels, monitor beaches and ports, and detect unlicensed fishing and illicit oil discharges. In addition, spaceborne receivers...

Sustainable food production remains a pressing challenge, so scientists have been assessing the potential of the future Sentinel-1 mission to deliver new methods of monitoring crops grown around the world from space.Sentinel-1, expected to be launched in 2013, is one of the five missions that ESA is developing for Europe's Global Monitoring for Environment and Security program.While the design of the Sentinel-1 mission is primarily based on marine applications such as ship detection and...

With interest growing in satellite radar techniques that provide 3D views of Earth's natural and urban environments, scientists from around the world recently gathered to review the latest findings and show how these methods can be used to monitor our changing world. The technique of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) radar polarimetry allows polarized information to be measured in the signals backscattered from Earth to a satellite sensor. Polarimetric interferometry is achieved by using...