NSSDCA ID: 1966-110A-05
Mission Name: ATS 1The instrumentation for the experiment consisted of a six-element semiconductor particle telescope mounted behind a collimator with a half-angle of about 20 deg. The six elements operated in nine modes with five energy intervals per mode. The instrument could detect protons from 0.6 to 100 MeV, alpha particles from 2.4 to 400 MeV, and electrons from 0.4 to 3 MeV. Species discrimination was possible over most of the energy ranges. One of the nine modes provided data on detector noise and particle background. One experimental mode was monitored during one telemetry sequence. The complete experiment sequence readout required 16 telemetry sequences and was repeated every 5.46 min. Once every 5.8 h, the counters and electronics were calibrated.
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Name | Role | Original Affiliation | |
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Dr. Louis J. Lanzerotti | Other Investigator | AT&T Bell Laboratories | louis.j.lanzerotti@njit.edu |
Dr. Walter L. Brown | Principal Investigator | AT&T Bell Laboratories |