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The origins of the Canadian upper atmosphere and space program can be traced back to the end of the Second World War. [5] Between 1945 and 1960, Canada undertook a number of small launcher and satellite projects under the aegis of defence research, including the development of the Black Brant rocket as well as series of advanced studies examining both orbital rendezvous and re-entry. [6]
The Churchill Rocket Research Range is a Canadian former rocket launch site located 23 kilometres (14 mi) [1] outside Churchill, Manitoba. [2] The facility was used by Canada and the United States beginning in 1954 for sub-orbital launches of sounding rockets to study the upper atmosphere.
The Canadian Astronaut Corps is a unit of the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) that selects, trains, and provides astronauts as crew members for U.S. and Russian space missions. [1] The corps has four active members, able to serve on the International Space Station (ISS).
The David Florida Laboratory is the Canadian Space Agency's spacecraft assembly, integration and testing centre, in Shirleys Bay, just west of central Ottawa.It is operated by the Canadian Space Agency and rented out to Canadian and foreign aerospace and telecommunications companies and organizations for qualifying space bound equipment such as communication or scientific satellites, or ...
Funded by the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), APEX-Cambium will help determine the role gravity plays in trees forming different kinds of wood. BCAT-5 - Binary Colloidal Alloy Test [3] BISE - Bodies In the Space Environment [4] CCISS - Space travel can be dizzying [5] EVARM - Radiation monitoring experiment [6]
After graduating, Panek attended the International Space University at Ames Research Center. [3] Panek works at the space technology company MDA where she works on Canadian space exploration and robotics. She is on the engineering team building the chassis and locomotion systems for European Space Agency's Rosalind Franklin Mars rover. [1]
The building is supposed to look somewhat like a space station. The building was finished in 1992 and named Canadian Space Agency Headquarters, and in 1996, it was renamed the John H. Chapman Space Centre in honour of John Chapman for his accomplishments in the Canadian Space Program and because of his role in the Alouette 1 program. [2]
SPAR Aerospace was a Canadian aerospace company. It produced equipment for the Canadian Space Agency to be used in cooperation with NASA's Space Shuttle program, most notably the Canadarm, a remote manipulator system. The company went through a series of changes through mergers and acquisition activities, and is now part of MDA.