Canada officially entered the Space Age when it launched Alouette 1, its first artificial satellite, September 29, 1962. It was the first satellite to be constructed by a country other than the United States or the Soviet Union. NASA launched it from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California and lasted for ten years before Canada switched it off, but it remains in orbit. Alouette 1 is expected to remain in orbit for another 1000 years.
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