Delivering satellite communications technology for Canadian contributions to international collaborations.
Overview
| Headquarters | Georgetown, Ontario (Palo Alto, California) |
| Founded | 1948 |
| Founder(s) | Russell H. Varian, Sigurd F. Varian |
| Ownership | Private |
| Media | ||
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| Website | YouTube |
Description
Adding an American company to a guide on the Canadian space sector is unusual. As a company founded in 1948, it also doesn't fit into the new space narrative. Communications & Power Industries (CPI) doesn't even focus on products or services for space. It is included here because its Canadian branch in Georgetown, Ontario provides high-end radar equipment for Canada's contribution to missions like NASA's Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT).
The company's bread and butter is manufacturing many items for industrial and military use. Its antennas are used in deep space (i.e. beyond Earth orbit) to facilitate communications and they also produce a wide range of ground station antennae.
Recent News & Updates
December 16, 2022
Canada's contribution to the SWOT mission is the radar system, produced by CPI. This will project is expected to yield many insights into domestic and international waterways at a previously impossible level of detail.
The #SWOTMission launched at 6:46 a.m. ET! 🚀👏
— Canadian Space Agency (@csa_asc) December 16, 2022
We’re proud to have contributed to this mission, and we are looking forward to what will come out of Canadian scientists’ research in hydrology and oceanography.
More info: https://t.co/AGWwp2evtv
Video: NASA pic.twitter.com/GPXCFmMZTS
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