HR: 1340h
AN: SM43B-1227    [Abstracts]
TI: Science Considerations for the NPOESS Medium Energy Particle Sensor (MEPS)
AU: Hanser, F
EM: hanser@assurtech.com
AF: Assurance Technology Corporation, 84 South Street, Carlisle, MA 01741 United States
AU: Wise, J
EM: wise@assurtech.com
AF: Assurance Technology Corporation, 84 South Street, Carlisle, MA 01741 United States
AU: Quick, R
EM: quick@assurtech.com
AF: Assurance Technology Corporation, 84 South Street, Carlisle, MA 01741 United States
AU: * Mullen, E
EM: mullen@assurtech.com
AF: Assurance Technology Corporation, 84 South Street, Carlisle, MA 01741 United States
AU: Redus, R
EM: bredus@amptek.com
AF: AMPTEK Inc., 6 De Angelo Drive, Bedford, MA 01730 United States
AU: McGarity, J
EM: jmcgarity@amptek.com
AF: AMPTEK Inc., 6 De Angelo Drive, Bedford, MA 01730 United States
AU: Dichter, B
EM: bronek.dichter@hanscom.af.mil
AF: AFRL/VSBXR, 29 Randolph Road, Hanscom AFB, MA 01731 United States
AU: Evans, D
EM: david.s.evans@noaa.gov
AF: NOAA Space Environment Center, 325 Broadway, Boulder, CO 80305 United States
AU: Holeman, E
EM: ernest.holeman@hanscom.af.mil
AF: Institute for Scientific Research, Boston College, 140 Commonwealth Avenue, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 United States
AU: Woolf, S
EM: stan@arcon.com
AF: Arcon Corporation, 260 Bear Hill Road, Waltham, MA 02154 United States
AB: The Medium Energy Particle Sensor (MEPS) to be developed as part of the Space Environment Sensor Suite (SESS) for the NPOESS Spacecraft will cover the energy range from 150keV to 10MeV for protons and 50keV to 4 MeV for electrons. It will also include dosimeter capability similar to that of the AMPTEK Compact Environmental Anomaly SEnsor (CEASE). The proton and electron telescopes are significant enhancements of the heritage instruments presently flying on the NOAA/NASA GOES and POES spacecraft. An overview of the MEPS instrument will be presented concentrating on the particle flux levels to be measured over the MEPS energy ranges and the dosimeter dose and Linear Energy Transfer (LET) data. In addition to the operational value of these data related to spacecraft system design and anomaly investigations, selected scientific results of previous investigations from data taken by heritage instruments will be presented. [The science related work is sponsored in part by AFRL under contract F1962802C0086.]
DE: 2700 MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS (6939)
DE: 2716 Energetic particles: precipitating
DE: 2794 Instruments and techniques
DE: 7900 SPACE WEATHER
DE: 7984 Space radiation environment
SC: SPA-Magnetospheric Physics [SM]
MN: Fall Meeting 2005