This chapter explores how the Alouette satellite’s reorientation of global data flows and mass-production of ionograms altered the natural order at the core of DRTE’s research. The satellite’s unexpected reliability demanded an automated system of data analysis. Automation, when applied to the ionogram, effaced the complexity used to characterize the ionosphere above Canada and explain violent communications disruptions. The chapter first analyzes the debates over the organization of the satellite’s global ground station network, the control of the satellite, the collaboration with NASA, and the sharing of data. It then examines how these considerations formed part of the technical design of the satellite, and specifically how they required a system for mass-producing ionograms from global data gathered around the world. The chapter’s final section focuses on the resulting problems of data analysis that this system produced and the new reading techniques devised to analyze the overwhelming number of records.
Author Correction: Syncing sustainable urban mobility with public transit policy trends based on global data analysis
