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News
- MSCI will have a booth at the 23rd annual Conference on Small Satellites — Elements of New Space Systems in Logan, Utah from August 10 - 13, 2009
Now in its 23rd year, the AIAA/USU Conference on Small Satellites has become internationally recognized as the premier conference on small satellites. The annual gathering provides a forum for the best minds in the small satellite community to review recent successes, explore new directions, and introduce emerging technologies in small spacecraft development. In addition to creating an excellent environment for networking and talking with experts in military, science, and academic fields, the Conference offers a program of international relevance, focusing on the key challenges and opportunities facing the small satellite community today.
- David Cooper, President & CEO, MSCI will be at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral Florida on Saturday June 13, 2009 at 7:17 am ET to watch the launch of Space Shuttle Endeavour as it embarks on the STS-127 mission. On board will be fellow Canadian Julie Payette, Flight Engineer. This mission will be Ms. Payette’s second spaceflight. STS-127 will mark the first time that two Canadian astronauts, Robert Thirsk and Julie Payette, are in space at the same time. STS-127 will be the 29th U.S. mission to the International Space Station. The flight will deliver the external experiment platform for the Japanese science laboratory facilities.
- The new MSCI building continues to take shape as the new furniture arrives.
Jim McMahon, and his team from Nu-Struct Inc., general contractors for the renovations, continue to put the final touches in the building.
The signs were installed under the watchful eye of designer Paul Gill from HiPoint Marketing, who also performed instrumental design work on the boardroom focus center.
The team is looking forward to move day on Friday 13th of March. Stephen O’Doherty and Geoff Welsh from Kinkora Solutions have expertly planned the IT migration. We should be up and running by Monday, March 16, but please bear with us if the phones go to auto answer while we get move into the new premises.
Exciting time for all, we don’t get to do this very often - enjoy.
- NeosSat Critical Design Review
The NEOSSat team lead by Ross Gillett is working hard to put the data package together for the upcoming NEOSSat Critical Design Review (CDR). MSCI has been under contract to the Government of Canada NEOSSat Joint Program Office (JPO) since July 2007.
The JPO consists of staff from the Canadian Space Agency, led by Program Manager, Bill Harvey; the Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC), led by Program Manager, Jean-Francois Levesque; and the NEOSSat scientific team, co-led by Dr. Alan Hildebrand from the University of Calgary and Dr. Brad Wallace from DRDC. The JPO will be reviewing the data package for the next few weeks and then travelling to MSCI for the CDR review.
The CDR is a major milestone in the life of a space program development. It is the portal to the commencement of the spacecraft build. The teams on both sides are looking forward to discussing the results to date.
- Asteroid-hunting satellite a world first
Canada's NEOSSat space telescope to discover near-Earth objects and track high-altitude satellites
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