Sunday, October 16, 2005
Tarqeq and Lunette
Tarqeq (Inuit for moon spirit) is a lunar mission to map the moon with a hi res laser camera system (similar to the one developed for inspecting the shuttle tiles) and radar. Lunette was originally planed to fly on India's Chandrayaan-1 moon probe. Unfortunately funding could not be guaranteed for lunette, and was dropped from the Chandrayaan program. Lunette will now be part of the Tarqeq mission, and is based on the CanX 4&5 Nanosattelite.
CASSIOPE
CASade, Smallsat and IOnospheric Polar Explorer. The satellite will include the telecommunications instrument Cascade, which will provide the very first digital broadband courier service for commercial use, and the scientific payload ePOP (enhanced polar outflow probe), which will be used to study the ionosphere. When launched in 2007 CASSIOPE will be the first to use the Canadian multi-purpose small satellite platform. I will be making a couple of add-ons based on this small satellite bus
CanX Nanosats
Walrus Launch Vehicle
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