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  • With the blessing of the Canadian Space Agency, a satellite called Radarsat-1 — equipped with cloud-piercing synthetic-aperture radar — flew over the search area with sensors blazing.

    Inside the High Tech Hunt for a Missing Silicon Valley Legend 2007

  • With the blessing of the Canadian Space Agency, a satellite called Radarsat-1 — equipped with cloud-piercing synthetic-aperture radar — flew over the search area with sensors blazing.

    Inside the High Tech Hunt for a Missing Silicon Valley Legend Steve Silberman 2007

  • Another important element in the space plan is "Radarsat," a remote-sensing satellite that uses a number of sensors but primarily a radar.

    Space Mission 41-G 1986

  • The last time a deal foundered at the federal level prior to Potash Corp. was in 2008, when Ottawa nixed an attempt by Alliant Techsystems Inc. of Linden, N.J., to take over MacDonald Dettwiler & Associates Ltd., on concerns the country would lose control over the Radarsat 2 satellite.

    Canada Turns Wary Eye to Foreign Bids Paul Vieira 2011

  • Radarsat is an active remote sensing system that transmits and receives microwave radiation.

    Remote sensing 2009

  • As a remote sensing device, Radarsat is quite different from the Landsat and SPOT satellites.

    Remote sensing 2009

  • Radarsat images have a resolution between 8 to 100 meters.

    Remote sensing 2009

  • Figure 8: Radarsat image acquired on March 21, 1996, over Bathurst Island in Nunavut, Canada.

    Remote sensing 2009

  • Turns out that company's Canadian partner in the deal is MacDonald Dettwiler & Associates MDA, the same Vancouver-based firm that just tried to sell itself, the Radarsat satellite, and the iconic Canadarm to the Americans.

    Israelis in Afstan to support Canadian UAVs? 2008

  • By preventing Alliant from buying the Radarsat property owned by MDA, the Harper government will be the one performing an Avro Arrow operation...

    Daimnation!: An Arrow through the heart of MacDonald Dettwiler 2008

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