Press Release

NASA Awards $2.3 Million (CDN) Contract

By SpaceRef Editor
February 5, 2003
Filed under ,

MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd.
announced today that the company’s U.S. Information Systems
subsidiary, Dynacs Inc., has received a contract from NASA’s Johnson Space
Center to provide software enhancements for NASA’s Flight Mechanics Lab. The
contract is valued at $1.5 million (U.S.), or $2.3 million (CDN).

Dynacs will provide the research and development necessary to construct
the Advanced Data Manipulation and Visualization system that will enable NASA
to do 3-D visualizations and 3-D animations of certain data for deep space and
near-Earth missions.

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For further informationLynne Vanin, Manager, Public Relations, MD
Robotics, 905-790-4466, lvanin@mdrobotics.ca
Ted Schellenberg, Media
Relations, MacDonald Dettwiler, 604-231-2215, teds@mda.ca

SpaceRef staff editor.