WELCOME to e-POP
A Space Weather Research Satellite Payload
The Institute for Space Imaging Science at the University of Calgary is leading the development of the Enhanced Polar Outflow Probe (e-POP), a scientific payload for CASSIOPE, the first, made-in-Canada multi-purpose small satellite mission from the Canadian Space Agency.
The e-POP payload will be carried by CASSIOPE into an elliptical polar orbit, circling the globe at altitudes between 300 and 1500 km. Once launched in 2013, e-POP's eight scientific instruments will collect new data on space storms and associated plasma outflows in the upper atmosphere and their potentially devastating impacts on radio communications, GPS navigation, and other space-based technologies. » Read more...
June 17, 2013: The Cassiope launch date has been updated to September 5, 2013 aboard the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The launch will take place from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, making it the first spacecraft to launch from this new SpaceX facility. Watch for continued updates as this milestone approaches! » Other news...
CASSIOPE is comprised of three working elements that will use the first made-in-Canada multi-purpose small satellite platform in the Canadian Small Satellite Bus Program, an element vital to the future of the Canadian space program. » Read more...
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