[amsat-bb] Re: CASSIOPE's Foldable Antennas

[B J]

On 9/28/13, Bryce Salmi <bstguitarist at gmail.com> wrote:
> I was watching the Canadian Space Agencies BROLL video of the CASSIOPE
> satellite due to launch in a few days and noticed a neat antenna. The video
> link below starts at the appropriate point in the video (feel free to watch
> the whole video too). For what looks like it is essentially steel tape
> measure metal... that's quite an intense antenna and deployment! I'm used
> to seeing these on cubesats and other small satellites but this is very
> neat to see too.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=WGD4cWnpcto#t=245

It looks like it's the descendant of what was used on Canada's first
satellite, Alouette-1:

http://www.spacenet.on.ca/data/pages/canada-in-space/alouette.html
http://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/satellites/alouette.asp

Many years ago, there was a documentary about the early days of
Canada's satellite program and I remember this was mentioned.
Unfortunately, I don't remember what the name was.

73s

Bernhard VA6BMJ @ DO33FL