Copernical Team
Spaceflight Inc.
Spaceflight was founded in 2009 to address the emerging market for a launch services provider dedicated to the small and secondary payload market.
Spaceflight’s model allows payloads to be rapidly manifested, certified, integrated and flown to space by providing a single one-stop shop that manifests and integrates payloads for a range of emerging launch and space transportation vehicles, maximizing flight opportunities, at published commercial pricing.
Spaceflight has established partnerships with prominent launch vehicle providers such as SpaceX, Orbital Sciences and Virgin Galactic as well as other key firms such as ISL Space Solutions, Moog/CSA, and Spaceflight’s sister company Andrews Space to help develop innovative solutions to meet government and commercial customers’ space transportation needs. Spaceflight has launch contracts to fly secondary payloads on the Orbital Antares, SpaceX Falcon 9, and Russian Soyuz and Dnepr vehicles.
Strategic Space Development
Strategic Space Development provides business consulting, strategic planning, knowledge management, competitive intelligence, program management and engineering services to aerospace and high tech industries.
Strategic Space Development support the defense, civil and commercial space industries in the development of new space concepts, program management, new business capture strategy, should cost and price to win analyses, and developing business growth strategies.
National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ)
The National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (国立天文台 kokuritsu tenmondai) (NAOJ) is an astronomical research organisation comprising several facilities in Japan, as well as an observatory in Hawaii. It was established in 1988 as an amalgamation of three existing research organizations - the Tokyo Astronomical Observatory of the University of Tokyo, International Latitude Observatory of Mizusawa, and a part of Research Institute of Atmospherics of Nagoya University.
In 2004, after the Japan reform of national research organizations, NAOJ became a division of the National Institutes of Natural Sciences.
Aurora Max (project)
Aurora Max is a project who shows auroras of Yellowknife (Northwest Territories, Canada). This project allows to amateur astronomers to watch auroras until the solar maximum, in 2013. Aurora Max is available only in French and in English.
Amateur astronomers can see auroras online and live here, from the Observatory of Aurora Max.
This is in collaboration with the University of Calgary, the Canadian Space Agency, the society Astronomy North and the city of Yellowknife.
Canadian Space Agency (CSA)
The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) (French: Agence spatiale canadienne (ASC)) is the Canadian government space agency responsible for Canada's space program. It was established in March 1989 by the Canadian Space Agency Act.
The headquarters of the CSA is located at John H. Chapman Space Centre in Saint-Hubert, Quebec. The agency also has offices in Ottawa, Ontario at the David Florida Laboratory and small liaison offices in Washington, D.C.; Paris; Cape Canaveral, Florida; and Houston, Texas.
Korea Aerospace Research Institute
The Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) is the aeronautics and space agency of South Korea. Its main laboratories are located in Daejeon, in the Daedeok Science Town.
The agency was founded in 1989.
Launch Services Alliance
Launch Services Alliance is a partneship between several space companies to offer launch services.
It was created in July 2003: Arianespace joined with Boeing Launch Services and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to create the Launch Services Alliance. The flagship launchers for the Launch Services Alliance are Arianespace's Ariane rocket, Boeing's Sea Launch platform and Mitsubishi's H-II A vehicle.
The agreement enables customers to seamlessly transition among three private spaceflight platforms for maximum flexibility to ensure delivery to orbit while allowing the Alliance's three members to retain their marketing autonomy. The arrangement is roughly comparable to the airline industry's "code sharing" agreements.
MEASAT 3
MEASAT-3 is a communications satellite operated by the Malaysian company MEASAT Satellite Systems Sdn. Bhd.
It was successfully launched on December 12, 2006, 7.35 am (Malaysian Time, GMT +8.00 HRS) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan.
In March 2003, MEASAT Satellite Systems Sdn. Bhd. of Malaysia ordered a Boeing 601HP satellite, giving it the designation MEASAT-3 at that time. MEASAT-3 joined the existing Boeing-built MEASAT-1 and MEASAT-2 spacecraft in the Malaysia-East Asia Satellite (MEASAT) system.
International Launch Services (ILS) was contracted as the launch provider. Boeing was specified to also provide an upgrade to the MEASAT ground facilities in Malaysia, as well as training and launch support services.
OSIRIS instrument
OSIRIS is an intrument onboard the satellite ODIN. It measures the ozone depletion.
The data collection started in 2001 and is still ongoing (July 2012).
ODIN satellite
ODIN is a Swedish satellite working in two disciplines; astrophysics and aeronomy, and it was named after god Odin. Within the field of astrophysics, Odin is used in the study of star formation. When used for aeronomical observations, it is the ozone layer depletion and effects of global warming that are explored.
Odin was developed by the Space Systems Division of Swedish Space Corporation (now OHB Sweden) as part of an international project involving the space agencies of Finland (funded by TEKES), Canada (CSA) and France (CNES).
Odin was launched on a START-1 rocket on February 20, 2001 from Svobodny, Russia on February 20, 2001. The duration of the mission was expected to be 2 years, but Odin is still observing (July 2012).
The onboard instrument measuring the ozone depletion is named OSIRIS.
references:
ODIN: University of Calgary (Canada)'s page
OSIRIS: Canadian Space Agency's page