MDA Space Ltd. announced MDA MIDNIGHT?, a space control platform for defence organizations to defend and protect the space domain. MDA MIDNIGHT? is a maneuverable spacecraft that employs high-reliability rendezvous and proximity operations (RPO) to detect, identify, counter and deter threats to critical space assets and orbits.

The spacecraft can also be used to augment existing military missions through on-orbit surveillance, asset relocation and satellite refueling. Equipped with a suite of active and passive payload capabilities and world-leading robotics, MDA MIDNIGHT? turns space domain awareness into actionable decision-making, enabling defence organizations to maintain operational continuity in the increasingly contested domain.

With nations around the world increasingly relying on satellites for national security and economic prosperity, a report on Global Counterspace Capabilities from the Secure World Foundation indicates that a growing number of countries are identifying the need to develop space control, or 'bodyguard', satellites to mitigate the growing threat landscape. The importance of the space domain was also recently recognized in Canada, with the federal government declaring space as a key sovereign capability. In this context, MDA MIDNIGHT?

is designed to address emerging customer requirements by providing defence organizations with flight-proven technology in a mission-ready solution that can be rapidly configured, built and deployed to respond to new and emerging threats in space. The initial MDA MIDNIGHT? mission is designed to rendezvous with multiple collaborative assets in low Earth orbit and employ a range of protective and defensive capabilities, including: On-orbit inspection and reporting of satellite status; Electronic counter measures detection, attribution and mitigation; Rendezvous and proximity operations, cooperative satellite capture and release; De-orbiting of a customer's non-operational asset.

On the ground, operational procedures for MDA MIDNIGHT? will be supported by an established flight controller team with unparalleled experience conducting over 100 free-flyer captures and decades of robotics operations on-orbit. For select customers, MDA MIDNIGHT?

can be operated through an established MDA Space Mission Control Centre. MDA MIDNIGHT? also leverages recent advancements and investments in the company's diverse product suite, including MDA SKYMAKER?

commercial robotics and MDA AURORA? satellite bus platform. Military partners interested in collaborating on product launch missions for MDA MIDNIGHT?

should contact midnight@mda.space.