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... and John Barry Image:Alouette_Chapman.jpg Alouette mockup with John Chapman (left) Image:Alouette II drawing.jpg Alouette II drawing Image:Alouette_Test.jpg Alouette I satellite testing Image:Stem_Alouette.jpg Four Storable Tubular Extendible ... -27 (Alouette 1) Image:Alouette_Extension_Rig.jpg Canadian S-27 satellite (Alouette 1) on antenna extension rig (1961) Image:Alouette_in_case.jpg Alouette 1 satellite in transportation container Image:Alouette_assembly.jpg Alouette satellite assembly ...

... Toronto manufactured most of the telemetry and sounding subsystems. xii Image:100YearsCanadianSlide23.JPG right thumb Alouette assembly Canada's first satellite would be launched using a relatively new booster the Thor ... . October 27 1961 xi Phil Lapp Memoir Pg 151 xii The Alouette Satellite Program - Colin A. Franklin, Chief Electrical Engineer, Alouette I program xiii Spacebound, Theodore Hartz, Irvine Paghis Minister Of Supply ...

... ("topside sounder") satellite, built by Canada and launched by NASA into orbit Sept. 28, 1962. ALOUETTE was still functioning well and transmitting ionospheric data to 13 telemetry stations around the world ... electron temperatures and densities with similar data obtained by ALOUETTE . Measurements were taken by the rocket payload in the ionosphere 10 min. before ALOUETTE passed through the region and made its measurements ...

... launched with Argo D-4 sounding rocket from Wallops Station, Va., into orbital path of ALOUETTE satellite. Preliminary data indicated measurements were made in upper ionosphere within two minutes of soundings ... from payload instruments would be compared with similar data transmitted simultaneously by ALOUETTE . Analysis of data later confirmed that ALOUETTE I data were valid. ''(Pres. Rpt. on Space, 1963, 1/27/64 ...

... 1962 on a Douglas Thor missile, similar to that which Blue Streak would have replaced. Alouette was delayed by over a year because the American Thor-Delta launch system originally proposed ... later than Blue Streak / Black Knight could almost certainly have launched two Alouettes. Britain contributed to the success of Alouette by providing two-way sounding and transmission in England, Nigeria and Singapore ...

... flown as a backup to Schirra's main comm-system. Image:100YearsCanadianSlide24.JPG right thumb Alouette on Mercury and Starfish Prime Communication was vastly improved by the dipole capability of STEM ... by this radiation and indeed the electro-magnetic pulse had caused black-outs in Hawaii. Alouette was the perfect instrument to study these artificially created radiation belts. Image:100YearsCanadianSlide29.JPG right ...

... off because of severe power drain encountered March 9. ''(NASA Release 63-56)'' Results from ALOUETTE I topside sounder satellite were discussed at Goddard Scientific Satellite Symposium, held by NASA in ... satellite were presented. Data from ARIEL confirmed ionospheric temperature relationship with latitude as detected by ALOUETTE I . Solar x-ray detectors found solar flares are made up of two phases-(1 ...

... program, designated Isis (International Satellites for Ionospheric Studies). Agreement called for orbiting of a second Alouette and Isis A, B, and C satellites at intervals between 1965 and 1970. The satellites ... experiments for the satellites. NASA also would launch an Explorer satellite in conjunction with the Alouette to obtain coordinated direct measurements. ''(NASA Release 64-6)'' Static test-firing of Titan II ...

Canadian satellite ALOUETTE was placed in polar orbit by Thor-Agena B vehicle launched by NASA from Vandenberg ... , 80.84° to the equator; period, 105.4 min. Named for Canadian high-flying songbird, ALOUETTE was first satellite both designed and built by a nation other than U.S. or ... -Agena B combination. To sustain its experiments in study of the ionosphere, the 320-lb. ALOUETTE had two crossed antennae, one 150 ft. long and_ the other 75 ft. long. X ...

... Canada's aeronautical and astronautical research. Image:100YearsCanadianSlide19b.JPG right thumb John Herbert Chapman at Alouette launch In January of that year work began at the Defense Research Telecommunications Establishment (DRTE ... Hadfield Part 6 by Robert Godwin Chapter 6 Footnotes i The Alouette Satellite Program - Colin A. Franklin, Chief Electrical Engineer, Alouette I program ii Arrows to the Moon, Apogee Books 2001 iii ...

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