Dynacon Enterprises Ltd.

Dynacon Enterprises Ltd.

Company

Toronto, ON

1998-01-01

2003-01-01

Toronto, ON (1998, 2003)

Aerospace

Satellites

Microbiology

Designing

Manufacturing

Supplying

Successor: Innova (Sparks, Maryland, USA)

Acquired by: Beckton, Dickinson & Co. (USA)

Related: University of Toronto Institute of Aerospace Studies (UTIAS), (Toronto, ON)

Successor: Microsat Systems Canada Inc. (Mississauga, ON)

- 1998 - Active in Toronto, and constructing astronomical microsatellite MOST. (Munro, “Canada to launch own ‘humble’ telescope”)

- 2000 – Active and constructing astronomical microsatellite MOST based on a “high-performance attitude control system” which allowed the telescope to maintain an orientation in space to observe stars. The project is run out of the University of British Columbia. (“Space Research cheaper with MOST”)

- 2003, July – Active. Completes the manufacture of and launches the MOST microsatellite, carrying Canada’s first space telescope. (“Canadian Microsatellite “Phones Home” to Dynacon’s Team”)

- 2012 – Dynacon, possibly after acquisition by Beckton, Dickinson & Co. turns its attention to “automated specimen processors”, and engineer David Cooper splits off the space division to form Microsat Systems Canada Inc. (MSCI). (“Corporate Profile”)

- c.2016 – The laboratory specimen processors part of Dynacon the company may be still active in Sparks, Maryland, US as Innova, a part of Beckton, Dickinson & Co., a US-based medical and biological laboratory supplies company. Innova produces automated specimen processors. (http://www.dynacon.ca/en/our-legacy.html)

- 2024 – The space division of Dynacon is active at 6877 Goreway Drive, Unit #2, Mississauga, ON, as Microsat Systems Canada Inc. (MSCI). (https://www.mscinc.ca/about/contact.html)