RENU 2 Payload Instrumentation

Forward experiment on the main payload

Main Payload Forward Experiment

University of New Hampshire Instrumentation:

  • Racetrack Magnetometer: New design!
  • Ultraviolet Photomultiplier Tube: 130 nm peak response
  • Electron Retarding Potential Analyzer (ERPA): Thermal electrons (0 to 3 eV, 0.06 eV increments)
  • Electron Plasma Sensor (EPLAS): Measures 10 eV to 15 keV energy range and pitch angle

    • Dartmouth College Instrumentation:

  • BEEPS-T: Thermal O+ and H+ (0.1 to 20 eV)
  • HEEPS-M: Mid energy ions (7-800 eV)
  • HEEPS-T: Thermal ions (0.1 to 20 eV)

    • Cornell University Instrumentation:

  • Science Magnetometer

    • Aerospace Instrumentation:

  • Photomultiplier Tube: 391, 630 and 844 nm passbands
  • Ion Gauges: Neutral particle detection

    • Aft experiment on the main payload

    Main Payload Aft Experiment

    University of New Hampshire Instrumentation:

  • Imager

    • Aerospace Instrumentation:

  • Ion Gauge

    • Experiment on the sub-payload

    Sub Payload

    Cornell University Instrumentation

  • COWBOY E-field Instrument

    • University of New Hampshire Instrumentation:

  • Electron Retarding Potential Analyzer (ERPA): Thermal electrons (0 to 3 eV, 0.06 eV increments)

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