Congratulations to Martin, Jeff and SSTL!
Eric W3DQ Washington, DC
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SSTL Wins Canadian Deal
February 1, 2008
[Satellite Today – 2-1-08] Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) won a contract from MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA) to deliver a satellite platform as part of the Sapphire space object surveillance program, SSTL announced Feb. 1.
The two-year program is part of a contract from Canada's Department of National Defence valued at 65 million Canadian dollars ($65.2 million). The contract has options that cover mission support, operations and maintenance.
The mission will provide a satellite-based resident space object observing service that will provide accurate tracking data on deep space orbiting objects. Sapphire will feature a space-based data collection platform for continuous surveillance of man-made objects in medium- to high-Earth orbits (6,000 to 40,000 kilometers). The data collected will be processed by a ground-based system and the results will be used to update the U.S. Satellite Catalogue used by North American Aerospace Defense Command and Canada to provide space situational awareness.
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Now we just need to ask G3YJO to get it to take some nice piccies of AO40 as it wizzes pass...
:)
Graham G3VZV
----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Rosenberg" [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 1:24 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] SSTL Wins Canadian Deal (from Satellite Today)
Congratulations to Martin, Jeff and SSTL!
Eric W3DQ Washington, DC
SSTL Wins Canadian Deal
February 1, 2008
[Satellite Today – 2-1-08] Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) won a contract from MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA) to deliver a satellite platform as part of the Sapphire space object surveillance program, SSTL announced Feb. 1.
The two-year program is part of a contract from Canada's Department of National Defence valued at 65 million Canadian dollars ($65.2 million). The contract has options that cover mission support, operations and maintenance.
The mission will provide a satellite-based resident space object observing service that will provide accurate tracking data on deep space orbiting objects. Sapphire will feature a space-based data collection platform for continuous surveillance of man-made objects in medium- to high-Earth orbits (6,000 to 40,000 kilometers). The data collected will be processed by a ground-based system and the results will be used to update the U.S. Satellite Catalogue used by North American Aerospace Defense Command and Canada to provide space situational awareness.
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Eric Rosenberg
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Graham Shirville