Magellan Aerospace Awarded $110 Million Contract for RADARSAT Constellation Manufacture

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[{"type":"text","content":"\n\n\nTORONTO, Sept. 4, 2013 /CNW/ - Magellan Aerospace Corporation (Magellan)\n announced today the award of a $110 million Cdn. contract from\n MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA) of Richmond, BC for the\n RADARSAT Constellation Mission (RCM) satellite bus manufacture.  The\n RCM is comprised of three low earth orbit spacecraft, each carrying a\n C-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) payload.\n\n\n\"RCM is one of the largest space projects that has been undertaken by\n Canada to date, and Magellan is proud to be a Tier One subcontractor on\n the mission,\" said James Butyniec, President and Chief Executive\n Officer of Magellan Aerospace.  \"Canada is one of the world's first\n space-faring nations and national programs like RCM are critical for\n keeping our domestic space technology capabilities relevant as well as\n providing benefits for Canadians.\"\n\n\nRCM is a Canadian Space Agency (CSA) mission that will provide\n twenty-four-hour-a-day C-Band data to augment and extend the data that\n RADARSAT-2 users currently rely on. The mission will support maritime\n surveillance (ship detection, ice monitoring and oil spill detection),\n disaster management and ecosystem monitoring.  The primary areas of\n coverage are Canada and its surrounding Arctic, Pacific and Atlantic\n maritime areas. The launch is planned in 2018.\n\n\nMagellan Aerospace will manufacture the three spacecraft buses,\n including the control systems, on-board computers, power generation and\n distribution systems, electronics, wiring, and on-board communication\n links with the ground.  Since 2005, Magellan has been awarded the\n initial Phase A, B, and C Preliminary  and Detailed Design contracts\n leading up to this current manufacturing  phase (Phase D).  This phase,\n including the complete bus assembly, integration, and test, will be\n carried out at Magellan's facility in Winnipeg, Manitoba where other\n CSA missions including CASSIOPE and SCISAT-1 were also manufactured.\n\n\nThe RCM bus is based on Magellan's MAC-200 small satellite bus that was\n first developed for the CSA's CASSIOPE program.  The MAC-200 design has\n been upgraded to accommodate the large, deployable C-band SAR antenna\n and to increase the power subsystem capacity for the radar payload. \n New GPS and propulsion subsystems...

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