NEWS BRIEFS

MDA TO HELP DEVELOP GROUND STATIONS FOR ENVISAT

MacDonald Dettwiler and Assoc., November 22nd, 1995 - MDA is to receive US $6.3 million for its participation in the development of ground stations for the European Space Agency's ENVISAT spacecraft. The project will see the development of software and computer hardware for data processing facilities in Italy and Sweden.

RADARSAT ACQUIRES PRELIMINARY TEST IMAGES

On November 28th, RADARSAT acquired its first images. The images are part of on-going payload tests and more will be collected over the coming period to verify different SAR imaging modes of the spacecraft.

CANADIAN WWW UPDATE

RADARSAT TEST IMAGES TO APPEAR ON-LINE

GROUPE AEROSPATIAL DE L'U. LAVAL INVOLVED WITH EXPERIMENTAL ROCKETS

CARLETON CHAPTER OF THE CANADIAN AERONAUTICS AND SPACE INSTITUTE

MARC GARNEAU COLLEGIATE SPACE RESOURCE CENTRE

CANADIAN SPACE GUIDE UPDATES

Expect to see the following over the next few weeks at http://www.space.ca/.

• Oedipus-C: some remarkable video footage shows the separation of the Oedipus-C payloads. The site will include images digitized from the video as well as the video itself.
• Canadian Space History Dateline

INTERESTING DATES

November 22nd, 1946

Canadian radio astronomy began. See the web site http://www.drao.nrc.ca/solar/WWW/10cmflux.shtml for more details.

December 5th, 1983:

Canada selects its first 6 astronauts

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