Canada’s Radarsat Constellation Mission satellites are prepared for flight ahead of a June 12, 2019, launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

MDA is designing the follow-on to Radarsat-2, the C-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite the Canadian firm built through a public-private partnership with the Canadian government.

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Debra Werner is a correspondent for SpaceNews based in San Francisco. Debra earned a bachelor’s degree in communications from the University of California, Berkeley, and a master’s degree in Journalism from Northwestern University. She is a recipient...