[Satellite Today — 1-3-08] MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA) has received a 39.5 million Canadian dollar ($40.2 million) contract to provide continued support to NASA‘s Johnson Space Center for robotic elements, MDA announced Jan. 3.
    The contract, which includes options valued at 36.3 million Canadian dollars ($36.9 million), continues sustaining engineering services provided by MDA to support the space shuttle Canadarm and its inspection boom as well as the robotic work station on the International Space Station.
    The follow-on contract will continue that support through late 2010.