# MDA signs contracts with Maxar for SPIDER robotic arm technologies on NASA mission

MDA has signed multiple contracts with Maxar Technologies to provide advanced space robotics technologies for the SPIDER robotic arm on NASA's OSAM-1 mission, including control software, cameras, and electronics, to be delivered in mid-to-late 2021.

- Type: Contract
- Announced: 2020-11-17
- Where: Brampton and Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, Canada
- Status: announced
- Products: robot control software, end effector, cameras, motor control electronics, arm control electronics
- Sectors: [Semiconductors and Industrial Electronics](https://endata.com/sectors/semiconductors-electronics.md)

## Companies

- [MDA](https://endata.com/companies/18051.md)
- [Maxar Technologies](https://endata.com/companies/18849.md) (customer)

## Sources

- [newswire.ca](https://www.newswire.ca/fr/news-releases/mda-receives-commercial-contracts-for-on-orbit-servicing-technologies-899158712.html), 2020-11-17: "MDA today announced that it has signed multiple contracts with Maxar Technologies to provide advanced space robotics technologies for the Space Infrastructure Dexterous Robot (SPIDER), a technology demonstration on NASA's On–orbit Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing 1 (OSAM-1) mission."

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