High rate data link front end design and performance during Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer Space Shuttle flight, May 1998

Author

Engelberg, Jan ; Mujunen, Ari

Author_Institution

Metsahovi Radio Obs., Helsinki Univ. of Technol., Espoo, Finland

Volume

15

Issue

1

fYear

2000

fDate

1/1/2000 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

33

Lastpage

36

Abstract

In June 1998, Metsahovi Radio Observatory participated in a 10-day shuttle mission, STS-91, ground support activity by receiving, archiving, and making available, the so-called High Rate Data (HRD) from Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS). The goal of this particle physics experiment project was to detect antimatter in space. Some aspects of the HRD link performance are discussed

Keywords

cosmic ray apparatus; data communication equipment; particle spectrometers; space communication links; space telemetry; space vehicles; spectroscopy computing; Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer; Space Shuttle flight; antimatter in space; ground support activity; high rate data link front end design; on-board computer; particle physics experiment project; software architecture data flow; telemetry downlink; Detectors; Downlink; Ground support; International collaboration; Monitoring; NASA; Observatories; Space shuttles; Space technology; Spectroscopy;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0885-8985

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/62.821661

Filename

821661