The Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning / McGill University
$393,580.00 CAD
≈ 5 Canadians' average pay for a year
- Department
- Canadian Space Agency
- Recipient country
- Canada
- Fiscal year
- 2024-2025
- Agreement period
- December 12, 2024 – September 30, 2027
- Reference
- csa-asc:003-2024-2025-Q3-00016
Published purpose
This project will use high-altitude ballooning to develop technology that will find application in deep space propulsion within the solar system and beyond. The propulsion concept uses a free source of energy: the solar wind. While the solar wind is tenuous, it can be interacted with using magnetic fields to transfer thrust to a spacecraft. This proposal will develop the key hardware components required to demonstrate the Plasma Magnet: devices capable of deploying and controlling large loops of superconducting cable measuring meters in diameter from a small, CubeSat-sized spacecraft.
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