Timepix in LEO orbit onboard the VZLUSAT-1 nanosatellite: 1-year of space radiation dosimetry measurements

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F49777513%3A23220%2F18%3A43953218" target="_blank" >RIV/49777513:23220/18:43953218 - isvavai.cz</a>

Nalezeny alternativní kódy

RIV/68407700:21230/18:00324733 RIV/68407700:21670/18:00324733 RIV/00010669:_____/18:N0000020

Výsledek na webu

<a href="http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-0221/13/11/C11010" target="_blank" >http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-0221/13/11/C11010</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/13/11/C11010" target="_blank" >10.1088/1748-0221/13/11/C11010</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Timepix in LEO orbit onboard the VZLUSAT-1 nanosatellite: 1-year of space radiation dosimetry measurements

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

The VZLUSAT-1 satellite, the first Czech CubeSat, was successfully launched on June 23, 2017, to a 510 km Sun-synchronous low-Earth orbit. It carries several scientific payloads including a Timepix detector as focal plane imager for the X-Ray telescope onboard. The Timepix detector contributes significantly to the satellite data collection, with more than 25 000 sampling acquisitions in the first year of deployment. Despite limitations of the satellite attitude control system, necessary for capturing X-Ray images of the Sun, the Timepix detector allows measuring the space radiation environment along the satellite orbit. As of September 2018, we conducted 33 whole-Earth mappings, recording radiation doses around the planet. Further, we show data from scans of the South Atlantic Anomaly and polar radiation horns, where the location and acquisition time were tailored to minimize event pile-up and particle track overlap. Since October 2017, the optics segment of the onboard X-Ray telescope was deployed, which exposed the Timepix detector unshielded to free open space. This change produced entirely new observations namely of low energy charged particles and a significant increase of measured particle flux. We also registered the effects of exposing the sensor to direct intense sunlight. We will summarize on the actual performance of the custom readout interface, which exceeds expectations in the constrained environment of the low-cost and low-powered CubeSat nanosatellite.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Timepix in LEO orbit onboard the VZLUSAT-1 nanosatellite: 1-year of space radiation dosimetry measurements

Popis výsledku anglicky

The VZLUSAT-1 satellite, the first Czech CubeSat, was successfully launched on June 23, 2017, to a 510 km Sun-synchronous low-Earth orbit. It carries several scientific payloads including a Timepix detector as focal plane imager for the X-Ray telescope onboard. The Timepix detector contributes significantly to the satellite data collection, with more than 25 000 sampling acquisitions in the first year of deployment. Despite limitations of the satellite attitude control system, necessary for capturing X-Ray images of the Sun, the Timepix detector allows measuring the space radiation environment along the satellite orbit. As of September 2018, we conducted 33 whole-Earth mappings, recording radiation doses around the planet. Further, we show data from scans of the South Atlantic Anomaly and polar radiation horns, where the location and acquisition time were tailored to minimize event pile-up and particle track overlap. Since October 2017, the optics segment of the onboard X-Ray telescope was deployed, which exposed the Timepix detector unshielded to free open space. This change produced entirely new observations namely of low energy charged particles and a significant increase of measured particle flux. We also registered the effects of exposing the sensor to direct intense sunlight. We will summarize on the actual performance of the custom readout interface, which exceeds expectations in the constrained environment of the low-cost and low-powered CubeSat nanosatellite.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

—

OECD FORD obor

20305 - Nuclear related engineering; (nuclear physics to be 1.3);

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/GJ18-10088Y" target="_blank" >GJ18-10088Y: Vývoj algoritmů pro rentgenové monitorování oblohy s optikou Račí oko a detektorem Timepix.</a><br>

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2018

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Journal of Instrumentation

ISSN

1748-0221

e-ISSN

—

Svazek periodika

13

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

November

Stát vydavatele periodika

GB - Spojené království Velké Británie a Severního Irska

Počet stran výsledku

9

Strana od-do

0-8

Kód UT WoS článku

000450394200001

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85057612019