I visited the Canadian Space Agency in St Hubert Canada on Tuesday, August 27 to give a talk on our Asteroid Prospector Spacecraft. The talk was fun and we had a great discussion on the challenges of near asteroid operations and building small interplanetary spacecraft.
After the talk Dr. Alfred Ng gave us a tour of the facility. Here I am with my wife and son standing in front of Dextre and Canadarm.
You can see Dextre to the left. The Canadarm is the to the right. Both are in operation on the ISS. Dextre is used for many of the tasks formerly done by astronauts during EVAs.
Here I am with our host Dr. Alfred Ng:
We saw the MOST satellite, a small astronomy satellite. It has a mass of only 60 kg. It can stare at a star for up to 7 days!
MOST is an excellent example of how a small satellite can do big science! We were very impressed with all of the amazing engineering and science being done at the Canadian Space Agency and hope to continue collaborating with them in the future!
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