SPAR Aerospace was a Canadian aerospace company. It produced equipment for the Canadian Space Agency to be used in cooperation with NASA's Space Shuttle program, most notably the Canadarm, a remote manipulator system. The company was originally formed in 1967 in Brampton, Ontario, through a management buyout of de Havilland Canada's Special Products division and Avro Canada's Applied Research unit, which gave it the name Special Products and Applied Research. It was best known early for building the Alouette 1 satellite, which made Canada the fourth spacefaring nation. It sold its space division to Orbital Sciences in 1999, and that division passed to MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates in 2001; the company is now part of MDA.
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The company was originally formed in 1967 in Brampton, Ontario through a management buyout of de Havilland Canada's Special Products division and Avro Canada's Applied Research unit.
Operates In: Aerospace Industry, Lead: industry
SPAR Aerospace was a Canadian aerospace company.
In Group: Aerospace and Defense, Lead: sector
SPAR Aerospace was a Canadian aerospace company.
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Founded By: Larry Clarke, Lead: founder of SPAR Aerospace
the founder, president, chief executive officer, and chairman of SPAR Aerospace Limited
Led By: Larry Clarke, Biography: leading the SPAR acquisition
before founding SPAR Aerospace and leading its acquisition from de Havilland in 1967
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