Charging Effects and Detection of Mesospheric Dust with the Instrument SPID on the G-Chaser Rocket

• Main Author: Gunnarsdottir, Tinna
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: UiT Norges arktiske universitet 2019
• Subjects: VDP::Mathematics and natural science: 400::Physics: 430::Space and plasma physics: 437; VDP::Matematikk og Naturvitenskap: 400::Fysikk: 430::Rom- og plasmafysikk: 437; SPID; Payload charging; Photocurrent; Mesosphere; Dust; MSPs; G-Chaser; Sounding rocket measurements; FYS-3931; Faraday; Tromso; University of Tromso
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10037/15665

Smoke Particle Impact Detector (SPID) is a faraday cup impact probe designed and built by the University of Tromso (UIT). Its main purpose is to measure nanometer sized smoke particles (in-situ) in the atmosphere, and to do that it needs to be launched on a sounding rocket. Its design is an open far...