THE GPS ATTITUDE, POSITIONING, AND PROFILING EXPERIMENT FOR THE ENHANCED POLAR OUTFLOW PROBE PLATFORM ON THE CANADIAN CASSIOPE SATELLITE

摘要

The CAScade, Smallsat and IOnospheric Polar Explorer, or CASSIOPE, is Canada's first multi-purpose small satellite, scheduled to be launched in 2011. It features two main payloads: the Enhanced Polar Outflow Probe, or e-POP, and Cascade. Together, they will achieve both a scientific and a commercial objective: e-POP will provide scientists with unprecedented details about the Earth's ionosphere, thermosphere, and magnetosphere, helping scientists better understand the cause and effects of potentially dangerous space weather, while Cascade will demonstrate a new high-capacity store-and-forward digital communications service.