When Aaron discovers a tape recording made by his late grandfather, it sends him on a Space-Age search for a lost connection.

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SED Systems of Saskatoon SED Systems is a communications company who have been supplying both systems and services to the satellite industry for 60 years. Though not incorporated until 1972, SED began in 1965 as the Space Engineering Division (SED)
Satellite Project Takes Off 🇬🇭 Ireal appears in the Ghanaian Times, the state-owned newspaper of Ghana, in a photo taken at the ground breaking ceremony for Ghana’s satellite Earth station, December 15th, 1977. The caption reads as follows
Spar Aerospace in the 1990s, Part I. In May of 1989, Larry D. Clarke retired as President and CEO of Spar Aerospace, and was succeeded by John MacNaughton while remaining Chairman of the Board. Beginning in 1990, the company was divided into four
What is a Satellite Earth Station? 📡 Read all about it! Satellite Earth stations conncected the world, and RCA Canada and Spar Aerospace built many of them, from the early 1960s into the 1990s. From right here in Canada 🇨🇦 to far away places like
Sistema Brasileiro de Telecomunicações por Satélite The official Hughes poster for Brasilsat, also known as SBTS. Note the logos at the bottom which include Embratel, the Brazilian telecommunications company and customer for the
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them. ~ Laurence Binyon, For the Fallen, 1914. Captain Ireal A. Mayson, seco
RADARSAT-1 30 years ago today, on November 4th, 1995, RADARSAT-1 was launched from a Delta II rocket at Vandenburg Air Force Base in California. RADARSAT-1 was Canada’s first commercial Earth observation satellite. It utilized synthetic apert
Earth Station Lhasa 🇨🇳 This is a photograph of a Spar Aerospace-built satellite earth station dish in Lhasa, Tibet from the mid-late 1980s. The striking white building in the background is the Potala Palace, an historic palace that was once the wi
Elinca Communications Limited Elinca Communications Limited was an Ottawa-based consortium of Canadian electronics manufacturers and civil works engineering firms. They offered high-quality microwave telecommunications systems, mainly for developing
It all STEMmed from a Velvet Glove This advertisement, a first for Spar Aerospace (then called Spar Aerospace Products Limited), appeared in the Canadian edition of TIME magazine on November 8th, 1968. Larry D. Clarke, President and CEO, sought to