University of Calgary

$199,999.00 CAD

≈ 3 Canadians' average pay for a year
Department
Canadian Space Agency
Program
Recipient country
Canada
Fiscal year
2018-2019
Agreement period
August 29, 2018 – —
Reference
csa-asc:003-2018-2019-Q2-04047

Published purpose

The main objectives of this project are to develop a mini plasma imager, which is a miniaturized particle sensor designed to measure ionized winds and temperatures from nanosatellites; and train students in experimental space physics. This project will increase scientific knowledge of the physics of Earth's magnetic cusp region, which will lead to better space weather forecasts. A concrete application that could derive from this project is a flight of the mini plasma imager on a nanosatellite mission such as CaNoSat-1.

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