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Anik series satellites [technical drawing]

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Sub-sub-series

Date:

1969-1977.

Reference:

R13875-49-5-E

Type of material:

Architectural and technical drawings

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

4879547

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Anik series satellites
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Date(s):

1969-1977.

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Place of creation:

Canada

Extent:

69 technical drawings.

Language of material:

Multiple languages
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Anik 1 technical drawings [technical drawing]

Shuttle payload ejection and Deployment module technical drawings [technical drawing]
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Sub-sub-series consists of two collections of technical drawings maintained by the Canadian Space Agency and that pertain to the Anik series of telecommunications satellites operated by Telesat Canada.

Sub-sub-series consists of drawings from the Hughes Aircraft Company which show the structural design of the HS-333 spacecraft bus as well as drawings from SPAR Aerospace which detail the design of different pieces of ground handling equipment (see linked accession with no. 2015-00892-6).

Sub-sub-series also consists of general schematics and structural drawings of the Shuttle Payload Ejection and Deployment (SPED) module (see linked accession with no 2015-00894-2). Telesat's Anik C series of satellites were launched from the Space Shuttle Anik C3 being launched on the first commercially operational space shuttle mission. These drawings were used to ensure that the satellite was compatible with the payload bay.

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Anik Series Satellites

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Anik Series Satellites : Launched on November 9, 1972 at 20:14 EST, Anik 1 was the first national domestic telecommunications satellite in geostationary orbit. While telecommunications satellites had been in geostationary orbit since 1963 with Syncom 2, they had been used for transcontinental communications. The launch of Anik 1 allowed the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) to reach the Canadian North for the first time.

Anik 1 was the first of the Anik series of telecommunications satellites operated by Telesat, and the modern domestic use of communications satellites can be traced back to it. The Anik series of satellites overtime has grown to include sixteen different satellites, with an on-orbit lifetime in excess of ten years. The Anik series of satellite are no longer based on the HS-333 bus, and have evolved over time.

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Source of title:

The title of this sub-sub-series is based on the name of the satellite series to which the attached records relate.

Accruals:

Further accruals are expected.

Related material:

Additional records relating to the development of the Anik series of satellites are in the sub-sub-series "Telesat Canada" (Arc. Ref. no. R13875-34-3-E).

Source:

Government

Related control no.:

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2002/003
2015-00892-6
2015-00894-2
R13875
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