00:01On this day in space.
00:03In 1962, Canada launched its first satellite, Alouette 1.
00:07This made Canada the third country to build and launch its own satellite after the US and the Soviet Union.
00:12Alouette 1 was designed to study Earth's ionosphere,
00:15which is a region in the upper atmosphere that is ionized by solar and cosmic radiation.
00:19The mission lasted 10 years before the satellite was decommissioned,
00:22but the derelict satellite is still orbiting the Earth.
00:25And that's what happened on this day in space.
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