MDA, Intelsat Launch Sat-Refueling Business

By Frank Morring, Jr. .

Canada’s MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA) will begin developing a commercial satellite-refueling business under a $280 million agreement with Intelsat that will include launch of a Proton-class servicing spacecraft and a test mission on a disused communications satellite.

MDA will use the experience it has gained developing robotics for NASA’s space shuttle and the International ...

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