General Information

Serial #

N/A

Part Number

1

Total Parts

3

AKA

N/A

Patents

N/A

General Description

WOOD WITH METAL & SYNTHETIC PARTS

Dimensions

Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.

Length

122.7 cm

Width

85.0 cm

Height

52.5 cm

Thickness

N/A

Weight

N/A

Diameter

N/A

Volume

N/A

Lexicon

Group

Space Technology

Category

Space science

Sub-Category

N/A

Manufacturer

AKA

Unknown

Country

Canada

State/Province

Unknown

City

Unknown

Context

Country

Canada

State/Province

Unknown

Period

C. 1987-1991

Canada

WINDII WAS JOINT CANADA-FRANCE PROJECT, WITH CANADIAN BUILT INSTRUMENT & FRENCH SOFTWARE. OPERATIONALINSTRUMENT WAS BUILT BY AIT CORP. OF OTTAWA, ON ONE OF NRC CONTRACTS FOR SPACE SCIENCE EXPERIMENTS TO BE FLOWN ON SATELLITES BUILT BY OTHER COUNTRIES, THE APPROACH TAKEN BY CANADIAN SPACE SCIENCE AT THAT TIME.

Function

MOCK-UP OF WINDII USED DURING DEVELOPMENT FOR DEMONSTRATION PURPOSES & IN DETERMINING POSITION OF CERTAIN COMPONENTS SUCH AS CABLES. INSTRUMENT WAS DESIGNED TO RECORD WINDS IN 70 TO 300 KM REGION OF ATMOSPHERE BY MEASURING DOPPLER SHIFT OF OPTICAL EMISSION LINES OF NATURALLY OCCURRING AIRGLOW.

Technical

WINDII WAS SECOND CANADIAN MICHELSON INTERFEROMETER EXPERIMENT, A MORE ADVANCED VERSION OF THE WAMDII EXPERIMENT TO BE FLOWN ON SPACE SHUTTLE C. 1992. IN EARLY 1990'S WINDII WAS REPRESENTATIVE OF STATE-OF- THE-ART SPACE SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY.

Area Notes

Unknown

Details

Markings

MANY PARTS & COMPONENTS HAVE IDENTIFYING LABELS CONSISTING OF BLACK APPLIQUE LETTERING ON CLEAR, COLOURLESS SYNTHETIC STRIPS.

Missing

N/A

Finish

SUPPORT STRUCTURE PAINTED YELLOW, INSTRUMENTS PAINTED LIGHT & MEDIUM BLUE, GREY PAINTED PARTS WITH CLEAR, COLOURLESS SYNTHETIC TUBING& WHITE 'VELCRO' STRIPS

Decoration

N/A