MDA opened a 1,400-square-meter facility production facility in Montreal in 2023 with a clean room, shown above. The company is also adding a 26,000-square-meter extension to an existing facility nearby, more than doubling its constellation manufacturing space to reach the capacity to build two satellites a day.

Canada’s MDA Space has increased its offer for SatixFy by 43% following a competing bid for the Israeli satellite chipmaker, bringing the total value of the deal to around US$280 million.

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Jason Rainbow writes about satellite telecom, space finance and commercial markets for SpaceNews. He has spent more than a decade covering the global space industry as a business journalist. Previously, he was Group Editor-in-Chief for Finance Information...