The David Florida Laboratory is the Canadian Space Agency's spacecraft assembly, integration and testing centre, in Shirleys Bay, just west of central Ottawa.
The laboratory was named to honour C. David Florida, a leading Canadian pioneer in space research.
In the past the David Florida Laboratory has tested satellites for Brazil, Indonesia, and the European Space Agency.
Recently the David Florida Laboratory has completed the integration and environmental testing of the Maritime Monitoring and Messaging Microsatellite (M3MSat).
This is a technology demonstration satellite that will be used to assess the utility of having in space an Automatic Identification System (AIS) for reading signals from vessels to better manage transport in Canadian waters.