SPAR Aerospace

SPAR Aerospace

Brampton, ON

Ottawa, ON

1967-01-01

1999-01-01

Brampton, ON (1967)

1700 Ormont Drive, Weston, ON (c. 1980)

Aerospace

Robotics

Designing

Manufacturing

- 1967 – Founded in Brampton, ON “through a management buyout of de Havilland Canada's Special Products division and Avro Canada's Applied Research unit. This provided the name Special Products and Applied Research, or SPAR for short.” (Wikipedia)

- 1976 - Active in the manufacture of equipment for CTS satellite. (“Introducing CTS, Catalyst in Space”)

- 1980 – Worked on Canadarm 1; located at 1700 Ormont Drive, Weston, ON. (“The Canadarm and SPAR Aerospace”)

- 1992 – “successful 1992 bid on the Canadarm2 for the International Space Station.” (Wikipedia)

- 1992 – “SPAR purchased the U.S. company ComStream, who made compression systems for telecommunications and satellites in particular.” (Wikipedia)

- 1997 –SPAR purchases CAE Aviation's aircraft maintenance operations branch. (Wikipedia)

- 1999 – The company sells its robotics division to “MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates as MD Robotics, a subsidiary of its MDA Space Missions division. As part of MDA, it developed the Mobile Servicing System for the International Space Station, which includes the Space Station Remote Manipulator System, also known as Canadarm2.” (Wikipedia)

“A Family Tree of Home-Grown* Ottawa-Carleton High Tech Companies” Silicon Valley North February 1996: 10-11.

D’Intino, Claudio. “The Canadarm and SPAR Aerospace” Emery Village Voice (November 2018) (https://www.emeryvillagevoice.ca/The-Canadarm-and-SPAR-Aerospace) [09-10-24]

“Spar Aerospace” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spar_Aerospace [05-10-23]