Provincial Government supporting MUN in development of Satellite

The provincial governmnet has provided $350,000 to assist engineering students at Memorial University in developing an earth observation satellite with a mission to study the ocean as part of the Canadian Space Agency CUBICS program.

Spearheaded by C-CORE and Memorial University’s Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, MUNStar-1 will be a CubeSat that contains a GNSS Reflectometry payload.

The satellite will collect GPS signals reflected from the earth’s surface as a passive radar to measure waves, winds, sea ice, oil spills and other ocean parameters from space.

This investment adds to a $350,000 grant from the Canadian Space Agency and $100,000 from C-CORE.