Brendan Quine maintains a keen interest in
spacecraft, space structures and mechatronic instrumentation. He
has been involved with numerous space projects providing a wide
range of expertise from the design of complete subsystems
to the test and certification of third party space equipment.
In collaboration with . he is currently developing a mission to Mars
called which
will explore new regions of the planet. As part of this mission
he recently spent his sabbatical year establishing the mission's
ground station at the . Brendan is a member of the 91亚色
University Argus team that is currently operating a pollution
monitoring spectrometer in low Earth orbit on the CanX-2
spacecraft. This technology was awarded the Canadian
Astronautics and Space Institute . Brendan is the inventor of a novel construction
technology which has attracted world-wide interest.
He, his collaborators and his graduate team
are exploring the application of space and related technologies
to research themes that include astronomy, climate change,
exploration and navigation.
Selected Publications
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a list of recent publications.
Media Clips
Northern Light Mars mission and the Beaver
Rover at Algonquin Radio Observatory on Discovery Channel's
Daily Planet, Dec. 2010 ().
Space Elevator in CNN Technology. Can
scientists make a space elevator? Nov. 2009 ().
