Mr. Mike Greenley reports

MDA SPACE UNVEILS SPACE CONTROL PLATFORM MDA MIDNIGHT, DESIGNED TO DEFEND AND PROTECT THE SPACE DOMAIN

At the 41st Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, MDA Space Ltd. has launched MDA Midnight, a space control platform for defence organizations, to defend and protect the space domain.

MDA Midnight is a manoeuvrable spacecraft that employs high-reliability rendezvous and proximity operations to detect, identify, counter and deter threats to critical space assets and orbits. The spacecraft can also be used to augment existing military missions through on-orbit surveillance, asset relocation and satellite refuelling. Equipped with a suite of active and passive payload capabilities and world-leading robotics, MDA Midnight turns space domain awareness into actionable decision-making, enabling defence organizations to maintain operational continuity in the increasingly contested domain.

"With new and emerging threats from adversaries, the critical space infrastructure that we all depend on requires greater protection," said Mike Greenley, chief executive officer of MDA Space. "Backed by 40 years of on-orbit robotics operations, decades of mission planning and satellite operations, advanced digital technologies, and our high-volume commercial production capacity, MDA Midnight brings together the elements required for this critical mission, helping national and international defence organizations safeguard the space domain on which billions rely."

With nations around the world increasingly relying on satellites for national security and economic prosperity, a report on global counterspace capabilities from the Secure World Foundation indicates that a growing number of countries are identifying the need to develop space control, or bodyguard, satellites to mitigate the growing threat landscape. The importance of the space domain was also recently recognized in Canada, with the federal government declaring space as a key sovereign capability. In this context, MDA Midnight is designed to address emerging customer requirements by providing defence organizations with flight-proved technology in a mission-ready solution that can be rapidly configured, built and deployed to respond to new and emerging threats in space.

The initial MDA Midnight mission is designed to rendezvous with multiple collaborative assets in low Earth orbit and employ a range of protective and defensive capabilities, including:

• On-orbit inspection and reporting of satellite status;
• Electronic counter measures detection, attribution and mitigation;
• Rendezvous and proximity operations, co-operative satellite capture, and release;
• Deorbiting of a customer's non-operational asset.

On the ground, operational procedures for MDA Midnight will be supported by an established flight controller team with unparalleled experience conducting over 100 free-flyer captures and decades of robotics operations on orbit. For select customers, MDA Midnight can be operated through an established MDA Space mission control centre.

MDA Midnight also leverages recent advancements and investments in the company's diverse product suite, including MDA Skymaker commercial robotics and MDA Aurora satellite bus platform.

"At MDA Space, our technology and our team have millions of hours of experience planning and conducting on-orbit operations," said Holly Johnson, vice-president of robotics and space operations, at MDA Space. "As we bring this leadership to serve space defence customers, we are actively seeking military partnerships to collaborate on upcoming mission profiles and timing, as well as commercial payload partners, to augment our suite of on-orbit capabilities."

About MDA Space Ltd.

Building the space between proven and possible, MDA Space is a trusted mission partner to the global defence and space industry. A robotics, satellite system and geointelligence pioneer with a 55-plus-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 global MDA Space team of more than 4,000 space experts 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 has been in its 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, the company will take you there.

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