1.	NiteOwl

a.	Name, acronym, and logo

b.	Experiment concept

i.	Ozone monitoring by self-calibrating stellar occultation

ii.	Parachute-borne slitless imaging spectrograph

iii.	GPS and AVC for absolute position and orientation

iv.	Vertical and azimuthal coverage and resolution

v.	Tomographic analysis to yield three-dimensional ozone distribution

c.	Submission concept

i.	Cross-disciplinary team of "new faces"

ii.	Graduate students prepare submission for grad. course credit (pass if submission is compliant and on time; fail if not)

iii.	Industrial partner works closely with University component of team

iv.	Graduate students get exposure ("three-month interview") with industry

d.	Submission team

i.	Graduate students (eight, from four Departments)

ii.	Faculty members (eleven, from five Departments)

iii.	Industrial partner (three senior SCI-TEC staff)

e.	Submission preparation

i.	Eight working groups of graduate students doing work with faculty guidance: Science, Optics, Electrical/GPS/Firmware, Mechanical, On- board Data Handling, Ground-based Data Handling, Risk & Reliability, Management Plan

ii.	Groups identified important questions and then tried to answer them by doing research in scientific and industrial literature, design studies, and mathematical modelling

iii.	Trade-offs / interactions between group areas

iv.	Active participation/guidance/assistance of industrial partner staff

v.	Interaction with payload contractor (Bristol Aerospace Limited) and launch contractor (Akjuit Aerospace Incorporated)

f.	Futures: Phase A, rocket experiment, microsat experiment

i.	Decision in May 1997

ii.	First step is Phase A contract to define mission more fully (U. of Sask., SCI-TEC, BAL)

iii.	Next step a contract to carry out mission, with launch in Jan-Feb 1999

iv.	Development of microsat experiment

v.	Possibility of ozone distribution map (regional, national, global scale) for commercial/public use

2.	Polar arc tomography

3.	Polar Camera