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Space Robot Maker MDA Nets Hubble Repair Contract

Posted by michael on from the send-in-the-robots dept.

hyperlinx writes "MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. said on Wednesday it has signed a $154 million deal to help NASA's controversial repair mission to fix the aging Hubble Space Telescope. The Canadian firm that built the Canadarm robotic arm technology used on NASA's space shuttles won the contract 'to provide a potential information and robotic servicing solution' in a rescue project being eyed for 2007."

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  1. MDA did not build the Canadarm by breem42 · · Score: 3, Interesting
    "The Canadian firm that built the Canadarm"

    Yes, MacDonald Dettwiler did buy Spar Aerospace, who built the "Canadarm", but the company otherwise has little to do with it. They are, however, involved in some of the robotics of the ISS (called "Canadarm 2").

    BTW -- few people other than Canadians (of which I am one) call it the "Canadarm".

    Tony in Vancouver

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