Alouette satellites

E259964

artificial satellite series scientific satellite

The Alouette satellites were pioneering Canadian scientific spacecraft launched in the 1960s to study the ionosphere, marking Canada as one of the first nations to design and build its own satellite.

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Label	Occurrences
Alouette satellites canonical	1

Statements (51)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	artificial satellite series ⓘ scientific satellite ⓘ scientific satellite ⓘ
contains	Alouette 1 ⓘ Alouette 2 ⓘ
cooperatingAgency	NASA ⓘ NASA ⓘ NASA ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	Canada ⓘ Canada ⓘ Canada ⓘ
followedBy	ISʘIS ⓘ surface form: ISIS 1 ISIS satellites ⓘ
heritage	pioneering Canadian space technology ⓘ
launchDate	1962-09-29 ⓘ 1965-11-29 ⓘ
launchDecade	1960s ⓘ
launchSite	Vandenberg Space Force Base ⓘ surface form: Vandenberg Air Force Base Vandenberg Space Force Base ⓘ surface form: Vandenberg Air Force Base Vandenberg Space Force Base ⓘ surface form: Vandenberg Air Force Base
launchVehicle	Thor-Agena ⓘ Thor-Agena ⓘ surface form: Thor-Agena B Thor-Agena ⓘ surface form: Thor-Agena B
manufacturer	Canadian government laboratories ⓘ
mass	approximately 145 kilograms ⓘ approximately 146 kilograms ⓘ
missionDuration	over 10 years of operation ⓘ
notableFor	first Canadian satellite ⓘ made Canada the third nation in space after the USSR and USA ⓘ making Canada the third country to design and build its own satellite ⓘ
operator	Defence Research and Development Canada ⓘ surface form: Canadian Defence Research Board Defence Research and Development Canada ⓘ surface form: Defence Research Telecommunications Establishment Defence Research Telecommunications Establishment ⓘ Defence Research Telecommunications Establishment ⓘ
orbitType	low Earth orbit ⓘ low Earth orbit ⓘ near-polar orbit ⓘ
precededBy	early US and Soviet scientific satellites ⓘ
primaryInstrument	ionospheric sounder ⓘ radio frequency sounder ⓘ
program	Canadian Space Agency ⓘ surface form: Canadian satellite program International Satellites for Ionospheric Studies precursor ⓘ
purpose	ionospheric research ⓘ
relatedTo	International Satellites for Ionospheric Studies program ⓘ
scienceDiscipline	ionospheric physics ⓘ space physics ⓘ
shape	cylindrical ⓘ
usedFor	mapping ionospheric electron densities ⓘ measuring ionospheric electron density profiles ⓘ radio propagation studies ⓘ studying topside ionosphere ⓘ

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Instruction

You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.

Input

Subject: Alouette satellites
Description of subject: The Alouette satellites were pioneering Canadian scientific spacecraft launched in the 1960s to study the ionosphere, marking Canada as one of the first nations to design and build its own satellite.

Referenced by (1)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

CSA → notableWork → Alouette satellites ⓘ

subject surface form: Canadian Space Agency