MPB Technologies Inc.

ADDRESS: 151 Hymus Blvd.
Pointe-Claire, Québec
H9R 1E9
GENERAL ENQUIRIES: 514-694-8751
MARKETING CONTACT: Jane Bachynski, Business Development
TEL: 514-694-8751
FAX: 514-695-7492
e-mail: bachynski@mpbtech.qc.ca
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
CONTACT:		 Asoke K. Ghosh, Director Space and Photonics Division
TEL: 514-694-8751
FAX: 514-695-7492
e-mail: ghosh@hymus.mpbtech.qc.ca
MAIN BUSINESS
ACTIVITIES:		MANUFACTURER
EMPLOYEES:[ 100 - 1000 ]
ANNUAL INCOME:[ > $10 M ]
YEARS IN BUSINESS:19
STOCK SYMBOL/MARKET: N/A
MISSION STATEMENT: N/P
ACTIVITIES / PRODUCTS/
FACILITIES / SERVICES:		Space activities cover the design, development and manufacture of self-contained flight qualified payloads emphasizing remote sensing, space science, space photonics, robotics and materials.

Services include special coatings for satellite components, environmental testing, safety testing, EMI / EMC measurement testing and certification and reliability testing of components, subassemblies and devices.

The Company's facilities include temperature and humidity chambers, altitude chambers, corrosion test cabinet, wind machine, rain rack and an "AGREE" chamber for combined temperature / humidity and vibration testing. Other facilities include a transportation simulator, shock machine and a digitally controlled electro-dynamic vibration system with combined slip table, open air test sites, and anechoic chambers.
SPACE PROJECT
PARTICIPATION:
  • Microgravity Isolation Mount (MIM) for the Canadian Space Agency is currently (May/96) aboard the Mir Space Station. This first mission will demonstrate the effects of reduced vibrations as well as oscillatory acceleration on fluid dynamics experiments.

  • Aquatic Research Facility (ARF) for the Canadian Space Agency, is designed to fly in a Shuttle mid-deck locker for studying aquatic invertebrates and micro-organisms. First flight of the ARF is scheduled for STS-77 in May 1996.

  • Laser Heated Floating Zone Crystal Grower (LATEOR) is based on two CO2 lasers allowing float zone crystallization of materials up to 3000 degrees C. It has flown successfully on NASA's KC-135 flights and CSA's Falcon-20 Jet. Looking at the crystallization of high temperature superconductors, LATEOR was tested aboard CSA's CSAR-2 suborbital sounding rocket launched in December 1994.

  • Laser Materials Processing in Space (LAMPS). Various KC-135 flights from 1990 - 1994 include laser drilling in liquids, plastic, quartz, glycerol and gelatins, holographic interferometer, welds and thermal blooming, high temperature superconductors surface treatment, containerless solidification and the study of acoustic signatures of welds.

  • Configurable Hardware for Multidisciplinary Projects in Space (CHAMPS). A furnace developed for the National Research Council's Space Division first flew on Shuttle flight STS-67 in June 1993 to investigate GaAs crystal growth by liquid phase electro-epitaxy.

  • C-Band transponders for RADARSAT satellite.
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