CHARGING AND DETECTION OF MESOSPHERIC DUST WITH INSTRUMENT SPID ON G-CHASER ROCKET

The Smoke Particle Impact Detector (SPID) was flown on the G-Chaser student rocket that was launched from Andøya on 13 January 2019. SPID is a Faraday cup instrument with applied bias voltages to deflect the ambient plasma and a target area inside the probe designed to measure the dust particles by ch...

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Main Authors: Gunnarsdottir, Tinna, Trollvik, Henriette, Mann, Ingrid, Olsen, Sveinung viggo, Eilertsen, Yngve, Antonsen, Tarjei, Björk, Arne, Restad, Erlend, Havnes, Ove, Fredriksen, Åshild, Boothby, Christoffer, Hansen, Rikke Hedelund, Floer, Markus
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: European Space Agency (ESA) 2019
Subjects:
VDP::Technology: 500::Electrotechnical disciplines: 540::Electronics: 541
VDP::Teknologi: 500::Elektrotekniske fag: 540::Elektronikk: 541
Andøya
Faraday
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10037/17835
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Summary:The Smoke Particle Impact Detector (SPID) was flown on the G-Chaser student rocket that was launched from Andøya on 13 January 2019. SPID is a Faraday cup instrument with applied bias voltages to deflect the ambient plasma and a target area inside the probe designed to measure the dust particles by charge detection. The charging process of the dust particles in the detector is important for interpretation of the measurements and the influence of the charging models is discussed. Preliminary analysis of the SPID observations shows that ambient plasma and sunlight had an influence on the signals; further analysis is needed to retrieve information on impacting dust from the data.

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