Richmond’s MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA) has signed two contracts with a combined value of $6.43 million with Thales Alenia Space for four subsystems to be installed on the Sentinel-6A, -6B, -3C, and -3D environmental monitoring satellites, part of Europe’s Copernicus program. These subsystems are dedicated to the satellites’ altimetry instruments and provide them with the capability to measure the distance to Earth from the satellite, which enables it to map ocean-surface topography.
