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WASHINGTON 鈥?MacDonald Dettwiler s space businesses posted gains in 2004, but the potential loss of a contract to help repair NASA s Hubble Space Telescope has company officials concerned about future revenue.MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd., based in Ri
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chmond, British Columbia, had been counting on the Hubble program and other NASA robotics work to improve revenue in its Information Systems segment, which also includes the company s satellite i
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magery work, said Daniel Friedmann, the company s president and chief executive officer .But the expected growth could be hampered if NASA abandons the proposed rescue mission.In January, NASA awarded MacDonald Dettwiler subsidiary MD Robotics Group a $154 million contract for work on a proposed Hubble repair mission. MD Robotics, based in Brampton, Ontario, supplies robot
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ic arms for the space shuttle orbiter and international space station.Under the Hubble contract, the company is developing a robotic grapple arm and a double-armed dext Odad Lunar base and Gateway part of sustainable long-term human exploration plan
DALLAS AP 鈥?Winter weather brought ice to Texas and nearby states Tuesday, causing the cancellation of more than 980 flights and delays to nearly 800 more.Numerous auto collisions were reported in Austin, Texas, with at least one fatality according to the Austin Fire Department.More than 500 flights to or from Dallas-Fort Worth Internati
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onal Airport and nearly 125 to or from Dallas Love Field were canceled or delayed Tuesday, according to the tracking service FlightAware.Dallas-based Southwest Airlines has canceled more than 300 flights and delayed nearly 100 more, FlightAware reported.The storm began Monday as part of an expected several rounds of wintry p
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recipitation through Wednesday across Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Tennessee, according to National Weather Service meteorologist Marc Chenard. Generally light to moderate freezing rain resulting in some pretty significant ice amounts, Chen
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ard said. We ;re expecting ice accumulations potentially a quarter inch or higher as