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... shape. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration overcame the problems that afflicted HST within three years, and since then Hubble and its scientists have produced a bounty of data that have ... replacement of its original instruments by much more powerful instruments, and today, more than six years after the final servicing mission, the Hubble Telescope continues to operate well. HST has been ...

... of energy and has kept the Sun powered and stable for over 4.6 billion years. Scientists have been studying the Sun and gathering enough data from distant stars to better ... same process of contraction and expansion happens again, but only briefly, for a few million years. The Sun will now rapidly expand to almost within reach of Earth's orbit, and ... a white dwarf remnant that will continue to slowly cool over billions and billions of years until it eventually flickers out of existence. It will be a magnificent end to our ...

... Image:100YearsCanadianSlide14.JPG right thumb Kurt Stehling and his earth-scanning satellite paper. In the years ahead space radar mapping technology would become one of Canada's main fortés in space ... many other countries, Canadian researchers recognized the importance of contributing to the proposed International Geophysical Year. In this regard Canada already offered a convenient vantage point for studying the high northern ...

... the Best Canadian Engineers moved to the US 1959 would prove to be a watershed year in 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) in Ottawa, under John Herbert Chapman ...

... space programs of Europe, Russia and the United States, all of which within a hundred years had developed space launch capabilities. Since Canada has never had its own orbital launch capability ... of Toronto students who would conduct world-class research into aerodynamics. A little over a year after that first flight in Canada, Haden Herbert Bales of Ashcroft British Columbia Bales, H ... climate and communications. The 75th anniversary of that first IPY would inspire the International Geophysical Year which of course led directly to the global Space Race competition and the launch of ...

... and renowned Grumman president Tom Kelly would work closely with Maynard for the next seven years. Kelly's team often referred back to Maynard's original design during their legendary seven ... breakup in space. This was similar to ''Project High Water,'' an experiment conducted the same year, in which von Braun and NASA had exploded a tank of water at high altitude for research purposes. 100 Years of Aerospace History in Canada: From McCurdy to Hadfield Part 8 by Robert Godwin Chapter ...

... to help bring the crew safely home. Their efforts would not be recognized until forty years later when they received the Canadian Air & Space Pioneer Award. ---- Image:100YearsCanadianSlide40.JPG right thumb ... left Canada. Ultimately this acquisition would impact the decision to give Astro the contract, many years later, to build the Mobile Transporter System for the International Space Station. vi Image:100YearsCanadianSlide39 ...

... contribute to the European Remote Sensing Satellite as the supplier of microwave components. Later that year, despite some multi-million dollar contracts, the company was forced to lay off dozens of ... approximately half the sales public and half private. They also received their biggest contract that year, $65M, to provide microwave switchers and multiplexers for a fleet of comm-sats. ---- MDA was ...

... California by the SPAR subsidiary Astro Aerospace. It would be launched in June 2002. Six years would then pass before Dextre would complete the system; being launched in March 2008. ---- All ... the fragments of Avro to Magellan Aerospace in 1995, including the Orenda engine plant. Two years later Magellan also added Bristol Aerospace to their portfolio of companies elevating them to the ... Canadian imagined a time when Canadian astronauts would be launched into space from Canada. 100 Years of Aerospace History in Canada: From McCurdy to Hadfield Part 13 by Robert Godwin Chapter ...

... contributed to your everyday life in ways most people can't imagine. Thanks to fifty years of effort by these scientists and engineers your life has been improving and is constantly ... at the table for both the creation and the first plenary meeting. Canada's Fifty Years in Space describes the parallel growth of the Canadian space science program from that date ... the aurora borealis by optical and radar methods. By the time of the International Geophysical Year , 1957-58, Canada was well established in this research and had built its own rocket ...

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