November 2017
Geospatial maritime solutions
..., cargo and vessels and other conveyances. The International Maritime Organization (IMO) describes Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA) as the effective understanding of anything associated with the maritime domain that could impact security, safety, the...
November 2017
Advancing maritime intelligence with real-time satellite AIS
... growing concerns surrounding maritime activity in the South China Sea have clearly shown that new methods of MDA are needed if these irregular threats are to be managed successfully. Likewise, identifying existing strategic and conventional threats...
14 April 2026
Spaceflux lands Canadian military space surveillance deal
London-based Spaceflux has been selected by MDA Space as the optical systems provider for a major Canadian military space surveillance programme....space intelligence market. Photo: Spaceflux CEO Dr Marco Rocchetto and COO John Cook with MDA Space team...
July 2021
Canadarm2 - 20 years of Canadian space robotics on the ISS
...Aerospace (later to become MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA)) as the prime contractor. Under the terms of... American colleagues. In addition, an integrated team of CSA & MDA engineering and programme staff was deployed both at the CSA in Saint...
January 2019
Smallsat revolution and AI kick-start nascent EO big data market
... (DG) to create vertically integrated, end-to-end solutions for the new space economy. The company is opening access to MDA’s radar with DG’s optical online delivery platform GBDX. DG expects analytics to be a key growth driver, with renewal of the...
July 2018
The rise of interplanetary CubeSats
...engineering from the University of Toronto. He worked on Canadarm, Canadarm 2 and the DARPA Orbital Express missions at MDA Space Missions. Jekan obtained his Ph.D. in space robotics at the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies (UTIAS...