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MDA Space

Active MDA EO & GEOINT Public HQ: Brampton, Ontario, Canada Founded 1969

Canadian space tech: geointelligence, robotics (Canadarm), satellite systems. Mfg for Telesat Lightspeed and SDA.

51.9
ARI Composite
Moderate Risk
#23 of 66
Peer Rank
Manufacturing cohort
Total Launches
No flights tracked
MDA
Market cap
TSX

FINANCIAL HEALTH

51.9
ARI composite · Moderate Risk
Peer rank#23 of 66
Peer groupManufacturing
Data coverage53%
Tracked gov contracts$360.0K across 1 awards

CAPITAL & CREDIT PROFILE

Government capital
$360.0K lifetime tracked obligations across 1 awards — top agency National Aeronautics and Space Administration ($360.0K) (strict id-matched; unattributed award rows are excluded). Explore grants →
Source: USAspending.gov award obligations matched to this company. Obligations, not recognized revenue.

SCHEDULE CREDIBILITY

How well this operator historically meets its own projected dates — launch NETs, company-announced roadmap milestones, and forward-dated facility plans. 100 = says what it does. Discount forward guidance accordingly.

INSUFFICIENT HISTORY
SCI · Insufficient history · 1 dated commitment
Behavioral read
insufficient history — 1 dated commitment tracked (score requires ≥5)
Source Events Late (share) Median slip Median slip, late only Sub-score On-time allowance
Roadmap milestones 1 0 (0%) 0 d 100.0 30 d

SCI = 100 × Σ(event credit) ÷ N over the trailing 36 months (2023-07-29 → 2026-07-28). Event credit = 1.0 when the commitment met its announced date (launches: net NET slip < 1 day; roadmap milestones & facility plans: within 30 days of the announced target window — month/year-precision targets count the whole period as on-time), else 30 ÷ (30 + days late beyond that allowance). Sources are pooled, so each source weighs by its event count. Sources: launch NET-change log (LL2 ingest, tracked since 2026-04-17; flown launches in coverage + not-yet-flown launches already slipped ≥1 day; cancelled launches excluded), roadmap registry milestones (company-announced targets, verified provenance only; open milestones past target count as late by days-overdue), facility_plans rows with target_date after announced_at (filing-dated rows excluded). Confidence: high ≥20 events, medium ≥8, low ≥5; no score below 5 events. 100 = says what it does.

Window: 2023-07-29 → 2026-07-28 (36 months) · launch NET log live since 2026-04-17

RECENT DEALS & CONTRACTS

Date Type Amount Counterparty Significance
Jul 09, 2026 M And A MDA Space, CLS High
Jun 24, 2026 Contract Award Canadian Space Agency, MDA Space Medium

Full deal history →

SECTOR POSITION

Primary sectorEO & GEOINT
Rank within sector#23 of 66
Tracked peers66
Secondary sectors

RECENT COVERAGE

REGISTRY DATA

Legal nameMDA Ltd.
Ticker / ExchangeMDA (TSX)
OwnershipPublic
HeadquartersBrampton, Ontario, Canada
CountryCA
Founded1969
CEOMike Greenley
AliasesMDA, MDA Space, MacDonald Dettwiler
Key programsCanadarm, RADARSAT, Telesat Lightspeed mfg
Gov customersCSA, NASA, DoD
IPO statusPublic (TSX, Oct 2021)

Source: space_company_registry.json · Operator homepage → · MDA Space corporate homepage — confirms Canadarm robotics, Chorus EO, and Telesat Lightspeed manufacturing (TSX: MDA).

METHODOLOGY

Launch history and subsystem outcomes aggregate from AstraVeris's launch_events table with Wilson 95% lower bounds on success rates. ARI scores come from the 11-factor composite (/finance/methodology/). Constellation counts derive from the live CelesTrak/GCAT object catalog. Gov contracts from USAspending.gov awards; private deals from deduplicated pipeline deal extraction. Absence of a row means "not tracked" — we never fabricate. See /methodology/ for the full data model and /data-licensing/ for licensing terms.

Not investment advice. For insurance underwriting, verify against primary-source filings and operator investigation reports.