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Macdonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA) has announced that an agreement that it made with Intelsat S.A. last March to jointly develop a satellite servicing vehicle has ceased to be in effect.

MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA) has signed a $3 million deal with the Chinese company EarthView Image Inc. to provide data for use in areas such as land use management, environmental monitoring, and disaster response.

MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd (TSX:MDA) reported strong earnings for the third quarter of 2011 with revenues increasing to $182 million compared to $167 million for the same period last year. MDA was boosted in the third quarter by U.S. operations and medical robotics.

MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA) has signed a US$17 million, 12 month contract with the U.S. National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA) to provide apparent changes in land-cover anywhere around the globe.

As the space shuttle program came to an end the final mission of Atlantis to the International Space Station (ISS) delivered the Robotic Refueling Mission (RRM) platform which in November will be used to demonstrate and test tools, technologies, and techniques needed to robotically refuel satellites in space. And while the project is a joint effort between NASA and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) the primary benefits of the experiment are to foster the development of a commercial solution by American companies which is in effect direct competition to Canada's MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA) Satellite Infrastructure Servicing (SIS) initiative. The question then is, why is Canada even involved?

MDA announced on Friday that it was extending its the requirements definition phase of its previously announced ambitious Satellite Infrastructure Servicing (SIS) initiative by three months.

In a deal worth $11.7 million over 5 years MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA) will provide the Department of National Defence (DND) with operation and maintenance support for Canada's Sapphire Satellite System which was developed and built by MDA.

MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA) today announced it has entered into an agreement with Intelsat S.A. as its anchor tenant for its Space Infrastructure Servicing (SIS) vehicle which could be in service by 2015. This is a major step forward for the Richmond, BC headquartered company as it helps create a new commercial space segment.

MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA) is taking advantage of their expertise in robotics as they recently signed a multi-million dollar contract amendement with Orbital Sciences Corporation to provide capture and mating solutions for Orbital's autonomous Cygnus commercial resupply service spacecraft.

MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA) released a new geospatial product yesterday, the National Urban Change Indicator. Initially targeted at the U.S. market the product will cover the lower 48 U.S. States.