Magellan Aerospace

Magellan Aerospace is a global aerospace company that provides complex assemblies and systems solutions to space customers, aircraft and engine manufacturers, and defence agencies. Magellan’s Space and Rockets business has more than 60 years of flight heritage on CSA and NASA missions, including launches of its Black Brant sounding rocket, sub-orbital payloads, experiments aboard human spaceflight missions, and Earth-orbiting satellite missions. Magellan offers a family of spacecraft bus solutions consisting of the microsatellite-class MAC-100, MAC-150, and the smallsat-class MAC-200, as well as command and data handling and power control unit subsystems. Magellan was the prime contractor for the Canadian Space Agency’s SCISAT-1 spacecraft and developed the CASSIOPE spacecraft bus and the three spacecraft busses of the RADARSAT Constellation Mission. Magellan is providing a NextGeneration Microsatellite (MAC-150) for the Canadian Department of National Defence and bus avionics for missions in LEO and deep space for commercial clients in North America.