Game-changing product positions company at the
forefront of transition from analog to digital satellite
technology
BRAMPTON, ON and WASHINGTON, DC, March 18,
2024 /CNW/ - MDA Space (TSX: MDA), a trusted mission
partner to the rapidly expanding global space industry, today
unveiled AURORA as the name of its new software-defined satellite
product line at the Satellite 2024 Conference taking place in
Washington, D.C.
Designed to meet the changing and highly competitive technical
and business requirements of the satellite industry, the fully
integrated AURORA portfolio provides operators with unparalleled
flexibility and functionality, which dramatically enhances
constellation performance at reduced cost and time to market.
"Reflecting the dawn of a new era of digital satellite
communications, we are proud to introduce AURORA, our
transformational software-defined satellite product line," said
Mike Greenley, CEO of MDA Space.
"Delivering best-in-class satellite performance, attractive
economics and more cost-effective constellation solutions, we are
honoured to have already secured two customers for AURORA,
including Telesat as the anchor customer."
Key features of the MDA AURORA product line include:
- A new class of standardized and modular software-defined
satellites enabled by a suite of innovative digital payload
technologies that meet multiple non-geostationary orbits and
frequencies, with dynamic in-orbit reconfiguration, maximizing
delivered capacity and quality of service to users with
unprecedented power efficiency.
- A scalable regenerative on-board processor with a built-in
software-defined packet router, optimizing communication routes
within a constellation between user links, gateway links and
optical inter-satellite links.
- A family of digital beamforming-enabled electronically-steered
direct radiating arrays with direct RF conversion and native beam
hopping capability compliant to DVB standards.
- An innovative constellation software suite comprised of
advanced onboard flight telecom software, a real-time digital
payload simulator and a scalable constellation network manager.
- An advanced satellite platform, designed for constellations and
optimized for digital payloads and high volume manufacturing.
- An efficient and modular digital payload solution designed for
advanced manufacturing leveraging automated production lines and
AI-enabled robots, cobots and high-skilled assemblers using
augmented reality to accelerate mass production, enabling faster
delivery at substantially reduced cost.
Today's news follows the company's recently announced rebrand to
MDA Space, an evolution that highlights the company's extraordinary
growth in recent years, with an expanding operational footprint and
a rapidly growing workforce in Canada, the United
States and the United
Kingdom.
ABOUT MDA
SPACE
Building the space between proven and possible, MDA Space
(TSX:MDA) is a trusted mission partner to the global space
industry. A robotics, satellite systems and geointelligence pioneer
with a 55-year+ story of world firsts and more than 450 missions,
MDA Space is a global leader in communications satellites, Earth
and space observation, and space exploration and infrastructure.
The MDA Space team of more than 3,000 space experts in Canada, the US and the UK has the knowledge
and know-how to turn an audacious customer vision into an
achievable mission – bringing to bear a one-of-a-kind mix of
experience, engineering excellence and wide-eyed wonder that's been
in our DNA since day one. For those who dream big and push
boundaries on the ground and in the stars to change the world for
the better, we'll take you there. For more information, visit
www.mda.space.
FORWARD-LOOKING
STATEMENTS
This press release contains forward–looking information within
the meaning of applicable securities legislation, which reflects
the Company's current expectations regarding future events.
Forward–looking information is based on a number of assumptions and
is subject to a number of risks and uncertainties, many of which
are beyond the Company's control, which could cause actual results
and events to differ materially from those that are disclosed in or
implied by such forward–looking information. Such risks and
uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the factors
discussed under "Risk Factors" in the Company's Annual Information
Form available on SEDAR+ at www.sedarplus.com. MDA Space does
not undertake any obligation to update such forward–looking
information, whether as a result of new information, future events
or otherwise, except as expressly required by applicable law.
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