Honeywell Will Formally Open Its Already Operational Smallsat Tech Incubator in Old COM DEV Facility
By Henry Stewart Maybe things are starting to look up for Canada's space industry. Sometime this month, Charlottesville NC based Honeywell International , will formally open its Space Division’s Greenhouse, a technology and space focused incubator in a facility originally owned by the old Cambridge ON based COM DEV International . Of course, the Honeywell Greenhouse has unofficially been opened for almost a year. It's been publically referenced as far back as the August 22nd, 2018 Space News post, " Small satellites are at the center of a space industry transformation " and many of its core staff have held their formal titles since June 2018. Before then, most worked for COM DEV and focused on doing pretty much what they had been doing since Honeywell brought the iconic Canadian space company and spun out its Cambridge ON based exactEarth smallsat subsidiary as a separate company in late 2015. But a formal announcement, as outlined in the J...