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2002 December Report of the Auditor General of Canada Photograph 7.1—Alouette 1 research satellite

2002 December Report of the Auditor General of Canada

December 2002 Report—Chapter 7

Photograph 7.1—Alouette 1 research satellite

Alouette 1 research satellite, launched 29 September 1962 to study the ionosphere. Canada was the third country in the world, after Russia and the United States, to design and build its own satellite.