A SPACE WEATHER RESEARCH PAYLOAD
ON THE CASSIOPE SATELLITE
e-POP PAYLOAD
The Enhanced Polar Outflow Probe (e‑POP) is a research payload on the CASSIOPE (a.k.a. Swarm-Echo) spacecraft that is collecting new data on space storms and associated plasma outflows from the Earth’s ionosphere.
CASSIOPE SATELLITE
CASSIOPE is comprised of three working elements that 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.
PARTNERS
The CASSIOPE/e-POP mission is a collaborative effort by researchers from several Canadian and foreign universities and research institutes, as well as Canadian industry. CASSIOPE became part of the European Space Agency’s Swarm mission, as Swarm-Echo, in 2018.
ABOUT CASSIOPE/e‑POP
The Enhanced Polar Outflow Probe (e-POP) is a research payload on the CASSIOPE spacecraft that is collecting new data on space storms and associated plasma outflows from the Earth's ionosphere.
Launched on September 29, 2013 by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, e-POP is enabling scientists to study space weather and its potentially devastating impacts on radio communications, GPS navigation, and other space-based technologies.
The University of Calgary is leading the operation of CASSIOPE/e-POP, which is the first made-in-Canada multi-purpose small satellite mission from the Canadian Space Agency. CASSIOPE/e-POP joined the European Space Agency's Swarm mission in 2018 as Swarm-Echo, greatly increasing the data made available by the mission. Routine operations as Swarm-Echo have come to an end, but CASSIOPE continues to collect novel data in space for a variety of ongoing projects.