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Sitting in a side hangar of the Canada Aviation and Space Museum (CASM) is a special preservation project: an airplane that is the direct ancestor of the forthcoming RADARSAT Constellation Mission (RCM) that will launch in the coming months, upgrading RADARSAT-2’s capability with a trio of satellites.

Today marks the 56th anniversary of the launch of the Alouette-1 satellite in 1962. With that launch Canada became only the third nation to build its own satellite and have it launched joining the then U.S.S.R. and United States.