MDA Space Unveils Space Control Platform MDA Midnight™ for Defense Applications
MDA Space announced its new space control platform for defense organizations today at the 41st Space Symposium in Colorado Springs.
(Toronto, Ontario & Colorado Springs, Colorado) MDA Space Ltd. (NYSE: MDA) announced today (Apr. 13) at the 41st Space Symposium in Colorado Springs its new MDA MIDNIGHT™ platform, designed as a space control platform for defense organizations.
Rendering of MDA Space’s Gateway Project – an AI-driven robotic arm system for NASA’s lunar Gateway station – courtesy of MDA Space.
Per MDA, MDA MIDNIGHT™ is a maneuverable spacecraft that employs high-reliability rendezvous and proximity operations (RPO) to detect, identify, counter and deter threats to critical space assets and orbits.
The spacecraft, which is equipped with a suite of active and passive payload capabilities and robotics, can also be used to augment existing military missions through on-orbit surveillance, asset relocation and satellite refueling, according to today’s press release from MDA Space.
“MDA MIDNIGHT™ turns space domain awareness into actionable decision-making, enabling defence organizations to maintain operational continuity in the increasingly contested domain,” reads today’s press release.
MDA Space CEO Mike Greenley said: ““With new and emerging threats from adversaries, the critical space infrastructure that we all depend on requires greater protection. 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.”
Rendering of MDA Space’s Gateway Project – an AI-driven robotic arm system for NASA’s lunar Gateway station – courtesy of MDA Space.
