Canadian Advanced Nanospace E Xperiment Program - CanX-3

CanX-3

CanX-3, also known as the BRIght-star Target Explorer (BRITE), is a nanosatellite planned to make photometric observations of some of the brightest stars in the sky in order to examine them for variability. These observations should be about ten times more precise than any ground-based observations.

The satellite will be a 20 cm cube which uses a number of technologies qualified on CanX-2.

A preliminary design for BRITE has been completed with the support of ETech, and the components to be integrated into the nanosatellite are currently being evaluated at UTIAS/SFL.

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