Achievements of the David Florida Laboratory

Depuis sa création, le Laboratoire David-Florida (LDF) a contribué de manière importante aux télécommunications et to la télédétection par satellite au Canada, et il joue toujours aujourd'hui un rôle de premier plan dans le cadre du Programme spatial canadien. Ses réalisations lui ont d'ailleurs valu d'être utilisé comme centre d'intégration et d'essai de matériel spatial par plusieurs autres pays. Voici une courte liste des principaux projets auxquels le LDF a eu l'occasion de s'associer depuis 1972.

Achievements of the David Florida Laboratory
DATE EVENT NOTES
2008 to 2009 James Webb Space Telescope
(JWST)		 This successor to the Hubble Space Telescope – JWST – is a joint mission by NASA, ESA, and the CSA. Canada is providing the Fine Guidance Sensor (FGS) which is integral to the telescope's attitude control system.

The environmental test campaign for the FGS will be done at the DFL.
2008 Cassiope Cassiope carries two payloads; Cascade provides the world's first space-based, commercial, electronic courier service and the Enhanced Polar Outflow Probe (ePOP) studies space weather phenomena in the Earth's upper atmosphere.

The environmental test campaign for Cassiope will be done at the DFL.
2007 Telstar 11N American Ku-Band communications satellite provides coverage across North America and Europe.

Thermal vacuum testing at the spacecraft level was done at the DFL under contract from MacDonald Dettwiler (MDA) for Space Systems/Loral (SS/L).
2007 CMBStar 1 American telecommunications satellite built by SS/L provides mobile video services for the 2008 Olympics. Also known as EchoStar 13.

Thermal vacuum testing on the all-up spacecraft was done at the DFL under contract from MDA for SS/L.
2001 to 2007 RADARSAT-2
Earth Observation Satellite		 Canada's next-generation Earth-observation satellite was launched in December 2007.
2003 MOST Canada's astronomical space telescope that studies the Microvariability and Oscillation of Stars (MOST)
2003 SCISAT-1 Canada's terrestrial atmospheric studies satellite.
2002 OPTUS C1
Communications Satellite		 Australian communications satellite.
2000 to 2001 BSAT 2A, BSAT 2B et BSAT 2C
Communications Satellites		 Japanese direct-to-home television broadcast communications satellite, known as Broadcast Satellite 4 (BS 4) Program. DFL was contracted by Orbital Sciences Corporation for mass properties measurements and radio frequency functional testing.
1997 INDOSTAR
Communications Satellite		 Indonesian direct broadcast communications satellite. Also known as Cakrawarta 1.
1995 to 2004 Mobile Servicing System
(MSS)		 The MSS is Canada's crucial contribution to the International Space Station and consists of the Special Purpose Dextrous Manipulator (Dextre), the Space Station Remote Manipulator (CANADARM2), and the Mobile Base System.
1992 to 1996 MSAT M1 et M2
Mobile Communications Satellites		 Commercial mobile communications satellites. MSAT M2 is also known as AMSC 1 (American Mobile Satellite Corporation 1).
1992 to 1995 RADARSAT-1
Earth Observation Satellite		 Canada's first Earth-observation satellite.
1988 to 1992 ANIK E1 and E2
Communications Satellites		 Replacing the ANIK C and D satellites.
1985 to 1989 Olympus
Communications Satellite		 Large European Space Agency (ESA) multipayload communications satellite. Also known as L SAT (Large Satellite).
1984 to 1985 DFL Expansion
High Bay 3		 In support of testing the European Space Agency Olympus communications satellite.
1983 to 1986 BRASILSAT S1 and S2
Communications Satellites		 First international prime contract. Also known as Brazil's SBTS (Sistema Brasileiro de Telecomunicacoes por Satellite).
1981 to 1982 ANIK D1 and D2
Communications Satellites		 First prime contract awarded to a Canadian company.
1980 to 1982 ANIK C2
Communications Satellite		 Launched by the U.S. Space Shuttle
(STS-07)
1979 to 1981 DFL Expansion First expansion of the DFL's Qualification Facilities to support Canadian prime contractor capability.
Ongoing since 1979 SRMS follow-on program
CANADARM 		The Shuttle Remote Manipulator System.
1972 to 1974 HERMES
Communications Satellite		 First satellite integrated and tested at the DFL. Joint Canadian-American effort to demonstrate direct-to-home broadcasting. Also known as the Communications Technology Satellite.
1972 DFL Official Opening September 29, 1972.