2013-055A
CSA/Canadian Ministry of Public Work applications satellite mission with MDA/Richmond contractor, the first payload on the upgraded v1.1 version of the Falcon 9 rocket.
F9 v1.1 fairing 13.1 long 5.2 d. The new `octoweb' carried the 9 Merlin 1D engines in a circular configuration instead of the square grid arrangement of the earlier F9 v1.0.
Cassiope (CASCADE Smallsat and Ionospheric Polar Explorer) is prototype of a fleet of LEO Ka-band satellites for transferring large data files. The CASCADE-CX prototype has 2 channels while the operational CASCADE-CP payload has 4. The test satellite also has the ePOP ionospheric research payload. Cassiope uses a Magellan Aerospace/MDA MAC-200 bus (Scisat MAC-100 derivative). Hexagon 1.8m dia 1.2m high.
| Cassiope | |||
| Date | Time | Event | Orbit |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 Sep 29 | 1600:13 | Launch by Falcon 9 V1.1 | V SLC |
| T+2:43 MECO | |||
| T+2:50 St 1 sep | |||
| 1603 | T+2:57 St 2 burn | ||
| 1603 | T+3:37 Fairing sep | ||
| T+5:30 232 km 2.9 km/s | |||
| T+8:05 St 1 relight | |||
| 1609 | T+8:54s St 2 SECO | ||
| 1609 | T+9:05? St 2 SECO | ||
| 1614 | T+14:15 Cassiope sep | ||
| 1617 | T+17:45 POPACS sep | ||
| 1620 | T+20:25 CUSAT sep | ||
| 1621 | T+21:25 DANDE sep | ||
| St 1 impact near 29 15N 120 18W | |||
| 1700? | Fuel dump St 2 | ||
Payload:
- ePop space weather package
- IRM Imaging and rapid scan mass spectrometer (Calgary/Amerl) 0.5-100 eV, 1-60 AMU ions
- SEI Supgrathermal Electron imager (Calgary/Knudsen) 1-200 eV electrons
- NMS Neutral mass and velocity spectrometer (JAXA-ISAS/Hayakawa)
- FAI Fast Auroral Imager (Calgary/Murphree), 6300A
- RRI Radio Receiver Instrument (CRC/James), HF, VLF
- MGF Magnetic field instrument (Calgary/Wallis)
- GAP GPS attitude position and profiling (UNewBr/Langley)
- CER Coherent EM radiation tomography (NRL/Bernhardt)
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