The SATRAM Timepix spacecraft payload in open space on board the Proba-V satellite for wide range radiation monitoring in LEO orbit
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68407700%3A21670%2F16%3A00349114" target="_blank" >RIV/68407700:21670/16:00349114 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pss.2016.03.009" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pss.2016.03.009</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pss.2016.03.009" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.pss.2016.03.009</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The SATRAM Timepix spacecraft payload in open space on board the Proba-V satellite for wide range radiation monitoring in LEO orbit
Original language description
The Space Application of Timepix based Radiation Monitor (SATRAM) is a spacecraft platform radiation monitor on board the Proba-V satellite launched in an 820 km altitude low Earth orbit in 2013. The is a technology demonstration payload is based on the Timepix chip equipped with a 300 mu m silicon sensor with signal threshold of 8 keV/pixel to low-energy X-rays and all charged particles including minimum ionizing particles. For X-rays the energy working range is 10-30 keV. Event count rates can be up to 10(6) cnt/(cm(2) s) for detailed event-by-event analysis or over 10(11) cnt/(cm(2) s) for particle-counting only measurements. The single quantum sensitivity (zero-dark current noise level) combined with per-pixel spectrometry and micro-scale pattern recognition analysis of single particle tracks enables the composition (particle type) and spectral characterization (energy loss) of mixed radiation fields to be determined. Timepix's pixel granularity and particle tracking capability also provides directional sensitivity for energetic charged particles. The payload detector response operates in wide dynamic range in terms of absorbed dose starting from single particle doses in the pGy level, particle count rate up to 10(6-10) /cm(2)/s and particle energy loss (threshold at 150 eV/mu m). The flight model in orbit was successfully commissioned in 2013 and has been sampling the space radiation field in the satellite environment along its orbit at a rate of several frames per minute of varying exposure time. This article describes the design and operation of SATRAM together with an overview of the response and resolving power to the mixed radiation field including summary of the principal data products (dose rate, equivalent dose rate, particle-type count rate).
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
20304 - Aerospace engineering
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2016
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Planetary and Space Science
ISSN
0032-0633
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
125
Issue of the periodical within the volume
June
Country of publishing house
DE - GERMANY
Number of pages
16
Pages from-to
114-129
UT code for WoS article
000376218600013
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-84979461898