#821: AlbertaSAT Wins Special ASTech Award
The Alberta science and technology community
recently celebrated its finest at the 2016 ASTech Awards.
A special award was given to AlbertaSAT. This is a group of students at the University of Alberta.
They’re building a micro satellite. And as Colin Cupido explains, it’s about the size of a loaf of bread.
COLIN CUPIDO: We’re part of an international mission and this is called the Cube50 mission, And the idea is that there are 50 satelites built around the world by various universities. And each university contributes in their own way their own special satellite towards this mission to study the lower thermosphere. an area of the atmosphere that really at this point is not as well known as other parts.
Either you’re either too low in the atmosphere, like in an airplane or a balloon, or you’re too high like the big expensive satelites. And so the goal of the mission is to get all of these institutions to build their own satelitte, to develop their nano satilite capabilities, and participate in this mission to make this truly innovative constellation of measurements to really enhance a difficult to study area of the atmosphere.
According to Colin Cupido, AlbertaSAT goes to the International Space Station in mid-February and will be deployed from there to the upper atmosphere.
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Program Date: 2016-11-08