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Abstract

As part of the Canadian Space Agency’s Canadian CubeSat Project, a partnership among the New Brunswick Community College, the Université de Moncton, and the University of New Brunswick are building a student-supported CubeSat named VIOLET after New Brunswick’s provincial flower. This 2U cubesat includes a global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) receiver designed to record raw observations of GNSS radio signals transiting the ionosphere and an oxygen red-line imager for airglow and auroral emissions. Both instruments provide information on the electron density in the ionosphere. Hybrid magnetic attitude control will be used to provide coarse attitude control of the satellite. In this paper, the design of the satellite and the proposed analysis of the observations will be presented.

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COSPAR Scientific Assembly

Acknowledgements

• Canadian Space Agency (CSA), and
• New Brunswick Innovation Foundation (NBIF).

• University of New Brunswick ,
• Université de Moncton ,
• New Brunswick Community College ,
• Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, ,
• IEEE New Brunswick Section ,
• Atlantic Canada Aerospace and Defence Association ,
• Testforce , and
• Spirent .

• NanoAvionics ,
• Red Shift Labs ,
• ON Semiconductor , and
• Valispace .

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#CubeSatCA, #CubeSatNB