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| | Canada Funds Small Satellite Platform Demonstration |
 | | The Cassiope mission, scheduled for launch in 2007, will carry a demonstration communications payload and a scientific payload on a new small satellite platform that will be developed by Canadian industry, officials from the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) and MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates said Feb. 6. |
 | | Cassiope will demonstrate that a Ka-band transponder can receive, store and transmit data at high speeds, said Logan Duffield, another director of business development for McDonald Dettwiler. |
 | | The payload, which will be developed by a team led by the University of Calgary, will collect data on the sun and space storms in the polar ionosphere, a region in the upper atmosphere, and measure their impact on communications, GPS navigation signals and other space-based technologies. |
| www.space.com /spacenews/archive04/canadaarch_022403.html (867 words) |
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