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Launch: February 25, 2013 (the first two satellites)
Status: Successfully launched

Canada's MOST space telescope will soon have company to study the "twinkling" of stars in our Galaxy. Not the twinkling you see at night, but the true vibrations of stars that are often detectable only above the Earth's turbulent atmosphere. The six nanosats of the BRITE (BRight Target Explorer) Constellation will join MOST in orbit to make highly precise measurements of the brightness variations of a large number of bright stars. Many of those stars are not just the brightest to your eye: they are among the brightest in energy output of all stars in our galaxy.
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CanX-3, also known as BRIght-star Target Explorer (BRITE), is a mission planned to make photometric observations of some of the brightest starts in the sky in order to examine these stars for variability. The observations will have a precision at least 10 times better than achievable using ground-based observations, and it will be packaged inside a CanX-class nanosatellite.
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