Speaker
Mr
Petteri Nieminen
(ESA)
Description
The Energetic Particle Telescope (EPT) is a high-fidelity radiation instrument intended for uncontaminated measurement of spectra of electrons (0.5-10 MeV), protons (9-300 MeV) and alpha particles (38-1200 MeV), with an additional channel for qualitative measurement of higher-Z ions. The first EPT unit was launched to a sun-synchronous Low Earth Orbit of 820 km altitude and 98.7° inclination on the Proba-V spacecraft on 7 May 2013. Following the successful commissioning phase, the EPT is currently used for various data exploitation activities under an ESA PRODEX project. This presentation summaries the EPT instrument concept and main characteristics, together with a description of the ongoing data processing and analysis efforts.
Primary author
Dr
Mathias Cyamukungu
(UCL/CSR)
Co-authors
Mr
Petteri Nieminen
(ESA)
Dr
Sylvie Benck
(Center for Space Radiations, Université catholique de Louvain)
