Development of Instruments for Space Exploration Using Meteorological-balloons
arXiv:1909.04901 · doi:10.1117/1.JATIS.5.3.036001
Abstract
Indian Centre for Space Physics is engaged in studying terrestrial and extra-terrestrial high energy phenomena from meteorological balloon borne platforms. A complete payload system with such balloons is at the most about five kilograms of weight. One has to adopt innovative and optimal design for various components of the experiment, so that the data can be procured at decent heights of ~ 35-42 km and at the same time, some scientific goals are achieved. In this paper, we mainly describe the instruments in detail and present their test and calibration results. We discuss, how we implemented and tested three major instruments, namely, a Geiger-Müller counter, a single crystal scintillator detector and a phoswich type scintillator detector for our missions. We also present some flight data of a few missions to demonstrate the capability of such experiments.
42 pages, 26 figures
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