Editing CASSIOPE (section)

==History==

The satellite that became CASSIOPE began with a 1996 concept for a small ({{convert|70|kg|lb|abbr=on|disp=x|/}}), inexpensive [[Microsatellite (spaceflight)|microsatellite]] called ''Polar Outflow Probe'', or POP.  The [[Canadian Space Agency]] funded a 1997 feasibility study that led to a modified mission concept that was designed during 2000-2005.<ref name=ucalgary2013/>
The revised concept was to combine an enhanced version of POP, called e-POP, with an [[MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates|MDA Corporation]] commercial satellite called ''Cascade'', into a single satellite, and to design and build a generic, low-cost [[smallsat|small]] [[satellite bus]] that would be useful for other Canadian satellite missions in the future.

The eight e-POP scientific instruments were built, calibrated, and tested in 2005-2007, with integration onto the satellite bus for spacecraft-level testing in 2008-2009.<ref name=ucalgary2013/>