Main Project Contact:
Matthew Dares

Project Start Date:
2018

Project End Date:
Ongoing

Project Name:
Northern SPIRIT: Canadian CubeSat Project

Project Team:
Matthew Dares
Patrick Gall
Annika Trimble
Kevin Wolsey

Overview:
ARI is partnering with other insitutions to carry about 4 space missions using CubeSats. CubeSats are small satellites built as squares, about the size of a rubik's cube.

Objectives:
There are four objectives for this project:

1. Collaborate: Work with parnter institutions to send CubeSats to space to conduct research on our upper atmosphere.
2. Northern Images: Art will be created and uploaded to CubeSats where the art will be displayed in front of a camera with Earth in the background.
3. Northern Voices: Northern stories about space and sky will be uploaded to the CubeSat and transmitted to radios across Canada in Indigenous languages.
4. Northern Games; Games will be created based on northern indigenous histories and culture. Radios in different parts of the Arctic will receive different transmissions. Listeners will have to work together to combine the messages and decode the final message.

Location:
Earth's upper atmosphere

Methods:
Aurora College will be collaborating with partner insitutitions in the development of the CubeSat software, hardware, and four mission objectives. This collaboration will provide the opportunity for interested professionals and youth to participate on the design and construction of the CubeSat. 

Schedule:
 

External Partners:
Yukon College
University of Alberta, AlbertaSat
Canadian Space Agency

Keywords:
Cubesat, Indigenous Games, Indigenous Stories, Space, Satellites, Northern Art