Polar Epsilon

Polar Epsilon is a scale of the Canadian Forces project with which the armed forces want to set current climate data and an extended 24 -hour air surveillance using earth observation satellite Radarsat -2. The Polar Epsilon project is an additional security system to the existing NORAD system, to protect the country and from unau- term penetration in Canadian airspace. For this project, two new Satellite ground stations on the east and west coast, were a built in Mass Town, Nova Scotia, the other in Abbotsford, British Columbia. The data obtained will be used primarily for military operations, but are also available for other government agencies.

History

The Polar Epsilon project was launched on 30 May 2005. It uses the data from the Erdebobachtungssatelliten Radarat -2, which was launched in 2007. The collected data will serve the military commanders for various missions that fall within their areas of competence. Furthermore, be monitored by the system, the northern areas of the country's borders and the Canadian territorial waters and Fährstraßen. Furthermore, the information obtained the worldwide use planning of the armed forces serve. Was started in 2009 with the construction of two new satellite ground stations on the east and on the west coast. The ground stations were completed in March 2011. Their full commitment they reached the end of 2011. These ground stations are operated directly by the Canadian armed forces.

Presence

The follow-up project Radarsat Constellation, which is to start in the period 2016-2017, consists of a network of three Earth observation satellites. This will continue the tasks as a substitute for Radarsat 2 and serve as data recovery.