{"id":81288,"date":"2013-03-29T22:42:57","date_gmt":"2013-03-29T14:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/mda-awarded-81-million-contract-support-canadian-robotics-on-the-international-space-station\/"},"modified":"2013-03-29T22:42:57","modified_gmt":"2013-03-29T14:42:57","slug":"mda-awarded-81-million-contract-support-canadian-robotics-on-the-international-space-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/mda-awarded-81-million-contract-support-canadian-robotics-on-the-international-space-station\/","title":{"rendered":"MDA Awarded $81 Million Contract Support Canadian Robotics on the International Space Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Satellite TODAY 03-28-13] <b>MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA),<\/b> a global communications and information company, has signed a contract with the <b>Canadian Space Agency <\/b>valued at CA$81 million (excluding GST\/PST) to provide sustaining engineering and operational support for its robotic elements on the <b>International Space Station (ISS)<\/b> through December 2015.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; MDA\u2019s robotic systems were used in the construction of the ISS and continue to play a vital role in on-going operations such as berthing visiting vehicles like the <b>SpaceX<\/b> Dragon and Japanese HTV spacecraft, and performing technology demonstrations.<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;MDA is the one of the Canadian Space Agency\u2019s main contractors for the Mobile Servicing System, which consists of Canadarm2, Dextre, and the Mobile Base System.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Satellite TODAY 03-28-13] MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA), a global communications and information company, has signed a contract with the Canadian Space Agency valued at CA$81 million (excluding GST\/PST) to provide sustaining engineering and operational support for its robotic elements on the International Space Station (ISS) through December 2015. &nbsp; &nbsp; MDA\u2019s robotic systems were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81288"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}