Prototype Instrumentation and Design Studies

Abstract

Flight prototype sensor systems using spherical sections and electrostatic deflection are being developed, fabricated, tested and calibrated. The detectors will measure the flux of ions and electrons over a 100 degree x 10 degree angular fan and in 32 discrete energy levels from 10 eV to 10 KeV. This report describes the sensor system design for an instrument package for shuttle flight as well as studies being performed investigating the feasibility of using strip detectors to produce multiangular solid state detector for high energy particles and the use of time of flight techniques for mass determination and a correlator to look for wave-particle interactions. (RH)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 05, 1989
Accession Number
ADA211566

Entities

People

  • A. W. Everest Iii
  • Alan C. Huber
  • David J. Sperry
  • John A. Pantazis
  • John O. Mcgarity
  • Scott J. Moran

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Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Sensors
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Analyzers
  • Circuit Boards
  • Clocks
  • Computers
  • Correlators
  • Data Storage Systems
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Electron Multipliers
  • Electrostatic Analyzers
  • Energy
  • Energy Levels
  • Personal Computers
  • Resonant Frequency
  • Tape Recorders
  • Three Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Image Processing and Computer Vision.
  • Solar Physics

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics
  • Microelectronics - Microelectromechanical Systems