network industry science and technology founded 1965 headquarters 18 innovation blvd saskatoon sk canada s7n 3r1 key people patrick thera president products research number of employees 250 dec 2014 website www.sedsystems.ca sed systems building sed systems is a communications company supplying both systems and services to the satellite industry . originating in 1965 sed is located in the innovation place research park on the university of saskatchewan campus . as a division of calian sed employs approximately 250 employees and annually achieves sales of about 50 million dollars . sed serves an international market that includes government defense departments space organizations as well as commercial customers such as boeing satellite systems hughes network systems inmarsat and sirius xm satellite radio . 1 between 2001 and 2013 sed systems provided the european space agency esa with 3 deep space antennas the new norcia station australia dsa 1 the cebreros station spain dsa 2 and malarg e station argentina dsa 3 . these are some of the largest antennas in the world spanning 35 meters allowing the esa to track missions such as rosetta spacecraft and the philae spacecraft landing on comet 67p churyumov gerasimenko in 2014 . 2 canada played an active role in the research and development of the international space station iss with endeavors such as the mobile servicing system mss . sed systems was a part of the mobile servicing system program developed the shuttle remote manipulator system srms or canadarm 2 . the canadarm 1 was developed by a team led by spar aerospace special products and advance research division of de havilland canada in which sed systems also played a key role . 3 history edit the university of saskatchewan s institute of space and atmospheric studies came together with university scientists and researchers such as dr. alex kavadas to form the space engineering division or sed systems . the first project was black brant rocket instrumentation design and construction for studying the upper atmosphere . 4 references edit ralko joe 2007 . space engineering division sed . retrieved 2007 09 09 . the canadian press canada.com ; rakobowchuk peter 2014 . ground stations built by canadian firm play big role in historic comet visit . retrieved 2014 12 23 . canadian space agency government of canada 2007 . an historical perspective canadarm shuttle remote manipulator system canadarm . retrieved 2007 09 09 . sed systems a division of calian ltd. 2007 . sed systems company history . retrieved 2007 09 08 . v t e corporations based in saskatoon crown corporations saskatoon light & power publicly traded corporations cameco international road dynamics potash corporation of saskatchewan star uranium united uranium private corporations areva resources canada canpotex crestline coach dynaventure farmers of north america first nations bank of canada guardian biotechnologies great western brewing company hitachi canadian industries il therapeutics prairie plant systems pronto airways qa technologies robin hood flour siemens transportation group sed systems west wind aviation yanke group yourlink co operatives affinity credit union concentra financial federated co operatives saskatoon co op tcu financial group retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title sed systems & oldid 647088152 categories companies established in 1965manufacturing companies of canadauniversity of saskatchewancompanies based in saskatoon navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages deutsch edit links this page was last modified on 14 february 2015 at 11 46 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view