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• Radarsat Constellation Mission (RCM) Data

  The RADARSAT Constellation Mission (RCM) is Canada's new generation of Earth observation satellites.The RCM includes a trio of Earth observation satellites, capable of scanning Earth day or night and in any weather conditions. The three-satellite configuration allows for daily revisits of...

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  Canadian Space Agency

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• Canadian Space Agency’s 2017-2018 Quarterly Financial Reports

  The Canadian Space Agency's (CSA) Quarterly Financial Reports make in-year spending at the Agency level available to Parliamentarians and Canadians. These reports supplement existing year-end reporting. Each quarterly financial report includes spending authorities granted through the Main and...

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  Canadian Space Agency

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• Metadata of the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) Library collection

  Set of metadata that describe all documents of the Larkin-Kerwin Library collection. This collection consists mostly of documents published by commercial publishers, but also includes internal CSA documents.

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  Canadian Space Agency

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• OSIRIS - Optical Spectrograph and InfraRed Imaging System

  Canada's Optical Spectrograph and InfraRed Imaging System (OSIRIS) is the optical payload on Sweden's Odin satellite. It works in synergy with Sweden's advanced radiometer and measures atmospheric composition. Since 2001, OSIRIS has obtained valuable information on the upper atmosphere. It...

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  Canadian Space Agency

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• MOPITT - Measurements of Pollution in the Troposphere

  MOPITT is a Canadian instrument aboard the Terra satellite. Since 1999, it has contributed to the study of environmental pollution by continuously scanning the troposphere to make long-term measurements of carbon monoxide concentrations. Initially planned for a five-year term, this experiment has...

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  Canadian Space Agency

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• Canadian Space Agency (CSA) peer-reviewed publications list

  Citation information for peer-reviewed scientific and technical articles. These publications were authored or co-authored by Canadian Space Agency (CSA) scientists.

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  Canadian Space Agency

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• The Geospace Observatory (GO) Canada Initiative

  The GO Canada initiative is a project that brings together a variety of space weather research tools and infrastructure. This network of ground-based instruments (more than 120 as of June 2019) that monitor space weather over Canada's North collects geospatial data, conducts scientific research...

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  Canadian Space Agency

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• WINDII Data Archive

  The Wind Imaging Interferometer (WINDII) was launched on NASA’s Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite on 12 September 1991 and operated until 2003. Its role in the mission was to measure vector winds in the Earth’s atmosphere from 80 to 110 km, but its measurements extended to nearly 300 km. The...

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  Canadian Space Agency

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• Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT)

  The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission provides valuable data and information about the world's oceans and its terrestrial surface water. SWOT is developed jointly by NASA and the Centre National d’Études Spatiales (CNES), with contributions from the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) and...

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  Canadian Space Agency

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• Ionosphere images from Alouette satellites

  Designed and assembled in Canada, Alouette-1 was the first satellite built by a nation other than the United States or the Soviet Union. It was constructed at a time when most satellites had a useful lifespan of a few months. Although Alouette-1 was as complex as any previously launched...

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  Canadian Space Agency

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• James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)

  The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is an international collaboration between NASA, the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA). JWST was built on the legacy of previous space-based telescopes to push the boundaries of human knowledge even further, to the formation of the...

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  Canadian Space Agency

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• NEOSSAT - Astronomy Data

  The dataset includes the astronomical images from the Near-Earth Object Surveillance Satellite (NEOSSat). NEOSSat was launched on February 25, 2013 and it is the first space satellite dedicated to detecting and tracking asteroids and satellites. The suitcase-sized NEOSSat orbits at an altitude of...

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  Canadian Space Agency

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• OSIRIS-REx

  NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission marks the first time Canada is participating in an asteroid sample return. OSIRIS-REx will study Bennu, an asteroid that has the potential to impact the Earth in the late 2100s. As part of this mission, Canada is contributing the OSIRIS-REx Laser Altimeter (OLA)...

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  Canadian Space Agency

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• BRITE Constellation

  The BRITE (BRIght Target Explorer) Constellation is a fleet of five nanosatellites whose purposes is to study the brightest stars in the night sky. They take highly precise measurements of the brightness variations of a large number of bright stars. Most of these stars are not just the brightest...

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  Canadian Space Agency

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• CASSIOPE Satellite Data on Earth’s Space Environment

  "The Canadian CASSIOPE satellite, operated by the University of Calgary, carries the Enhanced Polar Outflow Probe (e-POP) suite of scientific instruments to study the ionosphere, where space meets the upper atmosphere. The instruments collect data about the effects of solar storms and, more...

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  Canadian Space Agency

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• Planck Telescope

  This European Space Agency (ESA) mission began on May 14, 2009, with the launch of an Ariane 5 rocket carrying the Herschel Space Observatory, and ended in 2013. The Planck mission objectives were to study the cosmic microwave background’s anisotropies and polarization, as well as the birth and...

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  Canadian Space Agency

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• Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer Telescope (FUSE) Satellite Data

  Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) was a NASA space telescope, led by Johns Hopkins University (JHU), and built in collaboration with the Canadian and French space agencies. It undertook high-resolution spectroscopic observations in the far-ultraviolet from 1999 to 2007, significantly...

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  Canadian Space Agency

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• Meteorological Station (MET) of the Phoenix Mission

  It is important for the next exploration missions to learn more about the Mars planet climate. It is for this reason that the Phoenix robotic spacecraft landed on Mars in 2008 in order to search for environments suitable for microbial life on Mars, and to research the history of water there. The...

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  Canadian Space Agency

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• Lunar Exploration Analogue Deployment (LEAD) - Rover Data

  The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) partnered with the European Space Agency (ESA) to conduct a series of field tests to replicate scenarios of a lunar sample return mission. The location, a Quebec quarry, was slightly modified to emulate the lunar surface. In addition, to recreate the difficulty of...

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  Canadian Space Agency

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• Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment (ACE) on SCISAT

  Canada’s SCISAT is studying the complex chemical processes that affect the distribution of ozone in the upper atmosphere, especially over the Artic. From its orbit 650 kilometres above the Earth, its instruments use the light from sunrises and sunsets each day to identify more than 60 gases and...

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  Canadian Space Agency

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