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Alouette 1
The Alouette 1 satellite
Mission type
Ionospheric
Operator
DRDC
Harvard designation
1962 Beta Alpha 1
COSPAR ID
1962-049A
SATCAT no.
424
Mission duration
Final: 10 years and 1 day
Spacecraft properties
Manufacturer
Defence Research Telecommunications Establishment
Launch mass
145.6 kilograms (321 lb)
Start of mission
Launch date
September 29, 1962, 06:05 (1962-09-29UTC06:05Z) UTC
Rocket
Thor DM-21 Agena-B
Launch site
Vandenberg LC-75-1-1
End of mission
Deactivated
September 30, 1972 (1972-10-01)
Orbital parameters
Reference system
Geocentric
Regime
Low Earth
Semi-major axis
7,381 kilometres (4,586 mi)[1]
Eccentricity
0.00243[2]
Perigee altitude
996 kilometres (619 mi)[2]
Apogee altitude
1,032 kilometres (641 mi)[2]
Inclination
80.500 degrees[2]
Period
105.50 minutes[2]
Epoch
29 September 1962 06:05:00 UTC[2]
Alouette 1 is a deactivated Canadian satellite that studied the ionosphere. Launched in 1962, it was Canada's first satellite, and the first satellite constructed by a country other than the Soviet Union or the United States. Canada was the fourth country to operate a satellite, as the British Ariel 1, constructed in the United States by NASA, preceded Alouette 1 by five months.[3] The name "Alouette" came from the French for "skylark"[4] and the French-Canadian folk song of the same name.
A key device on Alouette were the radio antennas consisting of thin strips of beryllium copper bent into a slight U-shape and then rolled up into small disks in a fashion similar to a measuring tape. When triggered, the rotation of the satellite created enough centrifugal force to pull the disk away from the spacecraft body, and the shaping of the metal caused it to unwind into a long spiral. The result was a stiff circular cross-section antenna known as a "STEM", for "storable tubular extendible member".[5]
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^"Antenna material". Ingenium. Retrieved July 23, 2018.
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