28 Sep
2013
28 Sep
'13
2:52 a.m.
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=2...
Bryce KB1LQC