MDA Secures More RADARSAT-2 Pre-Launch Purchase Commitments

EARTH OBSERVATION

Illustration of RADARSAT 2

Richmond BC (SPX) Oct 15, 2004
MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates announced Thursday that the government of Finland is extending its use of RADARSAT-1 information and has signed a pre-launch commitment for RADARSAT-2 information.

ImageOne, Japan's leading provider of satellite imagery and services has signed a prepaid, pre-launch commitment to distribute RADARSAT-2 information to the commercial Japanese market. The total value of these RADARSAT agreements is about $4.3 million CDN.

With this RADARSAT-2 agreement, ImageOne, a RADARSAT-1 distributor since 2000, will continue to provide RADARSAT information to the Japanese business market.

The Finnish Institute of Marine Research and a consortium of other government institutions will continue to have access to RADARSAT information. Finland will enhance its ice charting/mapping activities with the new RADARSAT-2 capabilities.

SPACEWAR

DARPA Begins Advanced Radar Program

Arlington VA (SPX) Oct 04, 2004
The first phase of the Affordable Adaptable Conformal Electronic Scanning Antenna Radar (AACER) program began this summer when the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded funding to Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems (Baltimore, Md.), and Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems (El Segundo, Calif.). Raytheon was awarded $6,057,431 and Northrop Grumman received $5,781,583.

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