Randy Attwood: January 2012 Archives

Two 17 year old Toronto area high school students launched a Lego man 24 km into the mid stratosphere - and they have pictures and video to prove it.

Canada has signed onto a global wideband satellite communications system that will fill the strategic satellite communications requirements of the Canadian Forces over the next 20 years.

COM DEV International Ltd. has released its fourth quarter and year end financial results. Revenues in 2011 were $203.2 million compared to $220.9 million in 2010 - an 8% decrease.

NASA scientists are coming to Canada to study snowfall!

Beginning Jan. 17, NASA will fly an airborne DC8 science laboratory above Canadian snowstorms to tackle a difficult challenge facing the upcoming Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) satellite mission -- measuring snowfall from space.

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.