Alouette Program
Launched in this year, marking Canada’s first satellite.
What is 1962?
The name of Canada’s space telescope also called the “Humble Space Telescope.”
What is MOST (Microvariability and Oscillations of Stars)?
The name of Canada’s Earth-observation radar satellite program.
What is RADARSAT?
This Canadian agency helped design and build MOST.
What is the Canadian Space Agency (CSA)?
Alouette monitored this part of Earth’s atmosphere.
What is the ionosphere?
Canada became the first nation after these two to build its own satellite.
Who are the United States and the Soviet Union?
MOST was launched in this year.
What is 2003?
RADARSAT-1 was launched in this year.
What is 1995?
The ionosphere is created when solar wind does this to atmospheric atoms.
What is ionizes them?
MOST focuses on tiny changes in stars called this.
What are stellar oscillations?
This upper atmospheric layer was studied by the Alouette satellite.
What is the ionosphere?
MOST orbits Earth in this orbital style that keeps it oriented with the Sun.
What is a sun-synchronous low-Earth polar orbit?
The RADARSAT satellites use this technique to improve image resolution.
What is synthetic-aperture radar (SAR)?
The orbit MOST maintains lets it observe stars continuously for up to this many days.
What is about 60 days?
RADARSAT-2 provides images with high resolution using this software technique.
What is SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar)?
One primary purpose of Alouette was to help improve this type of communications.
What is high-frequency (HF) radio communications?
MOST was carried aloft aboard this country’s rocket.
What is Russia?
One purpose of the RADARSAT program is to help with this kind of natural disaster response.
What is disaster management?
RADARSAT radar satellites work in any weather and this time condition.
What is day or night?
Canada’s first satellite was launched through collaboration with this US space agency.
What is NASA?
After Alouette’s success, this follow-up program sent more satellites in 1969–1970.
What is the ISIS program?
One main scientific goal of MOST was to detect and characterize these around other stars.
What are exoplanets and stellar oscillations?
Another use of RADARSAT data is in this field that helps study soil moisture and crop yields.
What is hydrology/agriculture?
One advanced use of RADARSAT images is creating detailed maps called these.
What are digital elevation models (DEMs)?
MOST was developed in part by a university in this Canadian province.
What is British Columbia?