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Saturday, April 12th, 2008, 05:58 PM
Dave Knott writes "The Canadian federal government has blocked the $1.3-billion sale of the space technology division of MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates to Alliant Techsystems, a major US defense contractor. Industry Minister Jim Prentice is quoted as saying he is 'not satisfied' the sale will be a net benefit for Canada. MDA is Canada's leading developer of space-based technology, including the famous CanadArm and the recently installed space station robot Dextre."http://science.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/04/12/1846203 (http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/04/12/1846203&from=rss)
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