Title :
ESA Next Generation Radiation Monitor
Author :
Laurent Desorgher;Wojciech Hajdas;Ilia Britvitch;Ken Egli;Xiaoqiang Guo;Yinhong Luo;Frédéric Chastellain;Carlos Pereira;Reto Muff;Daniel Boscher;Gunnar Maehlum;Dirk Meier;Petteri Nieminen
Author_Institution :
Paul Scherrer Institute, PSI, 5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
Abstract :
The ESA Next Generation Radiation Monitor (NGRM), currently under development, will be the successor of the ESA Standard Radiation Environment Monitor (SREM) that is still measuring near-Earth and interplanetary space radiation environment onboard 6 different spacecrafts. NGRM will measure protons from 2 MeV up to 200 MeV, electrons from 100keV up to 7MeV, as well as LET spectrum of ions. Compared to SREM, NGRM will provide a much better energy resolution, will be smaller (<;1L), lighter (<;1kg) and consume less energy (<;1W). In this paper we describe the detection concept of the NGRM, present the Monte Carlo analysis of the performance of the NGRM detector system, and describes the actual status of its development.
Keywords :
"Detectors","Protons","Extraterrestrial measurements","Orbits","Space vehicles","Collimators","Pollution measurement"
Conference_Titel :
Radiation and Its Effects on Components and Systems (RADECS), 2013 14th European Conference on
DOI :
10.1109/RADECS.2013.6937362