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- OBJECT TYPE
- ENGINEERING FRAME MODEL/WIND IMAGING
- DATE
- 1987
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1991.0002.002
- MANUFACTURER
- AIT Corp.
- MODEL
- WINDII
- LOCATION
- Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 2
- Total Parts
- 7
- AKA
- BAFFLE SUPPORT STRUCTURE
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- METAL
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 91.4 cm
- Width
- 47.4 cm
- Height
- 28.0 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
- AIT
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Ontario
- City
- Ottawa
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Unknown
- Period
- C. 1987-1991
- Canada
-
WINDII WAS JOINT CANADA-FRANCE PROJECT, WITH CANADIAN BUILT INSTRUMENT & FRENCH SOFTWARE. OPERATIONAL INSTRUMENT WAS BUILT BY AIT CORP. OF OTTAWA, ON ONE OF NRC CONTRACTS FOR SPACE SCIENCE EXPERIMENTS TO BE FLOWN ON SATELLITES BUILT BY OTHER COUNTRIES, THE APPROACH TAKEN BY CANADIAN SPACE SCIENCE AT THAT TIME. - Function
-
ENGINEERING MODEL OF FRAME & SOME COMPONENTS USED IN DEVELOPMENT OF WINDII. INSTRUMENT WAS DESIGNED TO RECORD WINDS IN 70-300 KM REGION OF ATMOSPHERE BY MEASURING DOPPLER SHIFT OF OPTICAL EMISSION LINES OF NATURALLY OCCURRING AIRGLOW. - Technical
-
WINDII WAS SECOND CANADIAN MICHELSON INTERFEROMETER EXPERIMENT, A MORE ADVANCED VERSION OF THE WAMDII EXPERIMENT TO BE FLOWN ON SPACE SHUTTLE C. 1992. IN EARLY 1990'S WINDII WAS REPRESENTATIVE OF STATE-OF- THE-ART SPACE SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY. - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- N/A
- Missing
- N/A
- Finish
- GOLD PAINTED
- Decoration
- N/A
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AIT Corp., Support, circa 1987, Artifact no. 1991.0002, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/1991.0002.002/
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