A novel rocket-borne ion mass spectrometer with large mass range: instrument description and first-flight results

• Published in: Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
• Main Authors: Stude, J., Aufmhoff, H., Schlager, H., Rapp, M., Arnold, F., Strelnikov, B.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Arctic; Arctic Island; Norway
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-000A-3CDA-E

We present a novel rocket-borne ion mass spectrometer named ROMARA (ROcket-borne MAss spectrometer for Research in the Atmosphere) for measuring atmospheric positive and negative ions (atomic, molecular and cluster ions) and positively and negatively charged meteor smoke particles. Our ROMARA instru...