کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
1832558 1027521 2006 9 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Pre-flight performance and radiation hardness of the Tokyo Tech pico-satellite Cute-1.7
موضوعات مرتبط
مهندسی و علوم پایه فیزیک و نجوم ابزار دقیق
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Pre-flight performance and radiation hardness of the Tokyo Tech pico-satellite Cute-1.7
چکیده انگلیسی

The Cute-1.7 was launched successfully in February 2006 as a piggyback satellite of the Astro-F mission. The Cute-1.7 dimensions are 10×10×20cm3 box with a total mass of 3.6 kg. It is the second pico-satellite to have been developed completely by students of the Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech.) after the successful launch of the CUTE-I in June 2003. The goals of the Cute-1.7 mission are two-fold: (1) to validate high-performance, commercially available products for the first time in space. We particularly use personal digital assistants (PDAs) as a main computer in orbit (2) to demonstrate new potential uses for small satellites in various space studies, as proposed by the “satellite-core” concept. For the Cute-1.7 mission, we will carry avalanche photo diodes (APDs) as a high-count particle monitor in low-Earth orbit. Here we present details of various ground tests and pre-flight performance of the Cute-1.7 immediately before the launch. Results of the Cute-1.7 mission will provide quick feedback for space applications of APDs in Japan's future X-ray astronomy mission NeXT.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment - Volume 565, Issue 2, 15 September 2006, Pages 677–685
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