NSSDCA ID: 2006-001A-04
Mission Name: New Horizons Pluto Kuiper Belt FlybyThe Pluto Energetic Particle Spectrometer Science Investigation (PEPSSI) is designed to search pickup ions from Pluto to determine the atmospheric escape rate. PEPSSI is a time-of-flight (ToF) telescope which measures ions and electrons over a large range of energies and pitch angles. It consists of two parts, a ToF section and a solid state detector array. The detector array consists of six planar silicon detectors, each with two pixels dedicated to ion measurements and two to electron measurements. PEPSSI has a field of view of 160 x 12 degrees and an angular resolution of 25 x 12 degrees. It is designed to study protons in the energy range 25 - 1000 keV, atomic ions from 60 - 1000 keV and electrons from 25 - 500 keV. The PEPPSI and SWAP instruments make up the plasma and high energy particle spectrometer suite (PAM).
Questions and comments about this experiment can be directed to: Dr. David R. Williams
Name | Role | Original Affiliation | |
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Dr. Ralph L. McNutt, Jr. | Principal Investigator | Applied Physics Laboratory | ralph_mcnutt@jhuapl.edu |