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- OBJECT TYPE
- ENGINEERING MODEL/SCIENTIFIC
- DATE
- 1971
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1982.0654.001
- MANUFACTURER
- RCA Ltd.
- MODEL
- ISIS 2
- LOCATION
- Quebec, Canada
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- T-6597
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 1
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- METAL SHELL & PARTS/ WOOD BASE/ SYNTHETIC PANELS &PARTS.
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 133.0 cm
- Width
- 133.0 cm
- Height
- 170.0 cm
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Space Technology
- Category
- Space science
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- RCA
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Quebec
- City
- Unknown
Context
- Country
- Unknown
- State/Province
- Unknown
- Period
- ISIS PROGRAMME BEGAN IN 1963; ISIS 1 WAS LAUNCHED IN 1969, 2IN 1971; BOTH OPERATED UNTIL 1984 BY CANADA.
- Canada
-
ISIS 1 & 2 WERE CANADA'S 3RD & 4TH SPACECRAFT. ISIS 2 WAS LAST OF ISIS SERIES OF PIONEERING CANADIAN DESIGNED & BUILT CRAFT (AFTER ALOUETTE 2 & ISIS 1). THESE WERE VERY SUCCESSFUL SCIENTIFICALLY & TECHNICALLY, PROVIDING HUGE AMOUNTS OF SCIENTIFIC DATA & SPURRING DEVELOPMENT OF CANADIAN SPACE INDUSTRY. - Function
-
ENGINEERING MODEL USED IN DEVELOPMENT OF ISIS 2 SATELLITE. THIS WAS SCIENTIFIC SATELLITE EQUIPPED WITH IONOSPHERIC SOUNDER & OTHER INSTRUMENTATION FOR COMPREHENSIVE STUDIES OF IONOSPHERE, EXPANDING UPON EARLIER ALOUETTE 1 & 2 EXPLORATIONS, WITH OBJECTIVE OF IMPROVING CANADIAN COMMUNICATIONS. - Technical
-
ISIS SATELLITES WERE MORE SOPHISTICATED THAN ALOUETTES, HAVING ATTITUDE & SPIN CONTROL SYSTEMS, TAPE RECORDERS TO EXTEND AREAS OVER WHICH DATA COULD BE COLLECTED, & COMPLEMENT OF EXPERIMENTS FOR COMPREHENSIVE IONOSPERIC OBSERVATIONS. ISIS 2 ALSO HAD OPTICAL SENSORS FOR AIRGLOW & AURORA MAPPING (3). - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- MFR.'S NAME, MODEL, SERIAL NOS. ON INTERIOR MODULES.
- Missing
- UPPER SOLAR PANELS.
- Finish
- PLATED & BLACK PAINTED METAL/ MULTICOLOURED SYNTHETIC.
- Decoration
- N/A
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RCA Ltd., Satellite, circa 1971, Artifact no. 1982.0654, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/1982.0654.001/
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