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MDA awarded initial design phase contract for lunar rover
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n \n \n \n MDA awarded initial design phase contract for lunar rover\n \n \n /* Style Definitions */\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Canada NewsWire\n \n \n \n \n \n Engages expert pan-Canadian team of small businesses, scientists and academics\n \n \n \n \n BRAMPTON, ON\n \n ,\n \n Nov. 11, 2021\n \n /CNW/ - MDA Ltd. (TSX: MDA), a leading provider of advanced technology and services to the rapidly-expanding global space industry, today announced that it has been awarded a contract by the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) to undertake a Phase A initial design study for a Canadian Lunar Rover mission to the Moon.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n As part of the CSA's Lunar Exploration Accelerator Program (LEAP), the Lunar Rover will advance eight key technologies that are foundational building blocks for planetary rovers, including mobility, communications, operations, thermal control for lunar night survival, power generation and storage, and semi-autonomous plus autonomous operations.\n \n \n The rover will conduct its mission at the South Pole of the Moon, providing the opportunity to explore resources in the permanently shadowed regions, including lunar volatiles and water ice, as well as thermal and radiation safety analysis for future human lunar landings.\n \n \n MDA has assembled a world-leading team of Canadian Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and scientific and academic experts to deliver the LEAP Lunar Rover, paving the way for\n \n Canada\n \n to establish technologies and capabilities that feed into future commercial lunar supply chains.\n \n \n \n \n Technology team:\n \n Mission Control Space Services; CTA (Centre de Technologies Avancées BRP-UdeS); Institut national d'optique (INO); Clearpath Robotics; Kepler Communications; Xiphos Systems Corporation; Delton Innovations Ltd.; NASA Ames Research Center;\n \n University of Toronto\n \n Institute for Aerospace Studies; and\n \n Carleton University\n \n .\n \n \n \n Science team:\n \n York University;\n \n Western University\n \n ;\n \n Concordia University\n \n ;\n \n University of Hawaii\n \n ; Stoney Brook Unive...