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Scientific instrumentation of main satellite APEX

General view of the satellite APEX

 

Scientific instrumentation of main satellite APEX
 
EXPERIMENT  ASSIGNMENT  PRODUCER 
UEM-2 

 electron accelerator 

Injection of a modulated electron beam 

 (32-250000??) 

 More than 200 sessions of injection is spent 

Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism,Ionosphere and Radiowave propagation, 

 Russian Academy of Sciences,Troitsk,(IZMIRAN); 

 Electrical welding Institute named after E.O.Paton , National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine;Kiev 

 Institute of electrodynamics, 

 National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine;Kiev 

UPM 

 plasma gun 

Injection of a beam of Xe plasma modulated on a current (32 - 1000 Hz) 

 More than 250 sessions of injection are produced 

IZMIRAN 

Designing bureau FAKEL ; 

 Designing bureau of Institute of physics and mechanics,National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine ;Lvov 

KM-10 

 cold plasma analyser 

Measurement of temperature and distribution on energy of electrons of cold plasma with T =0.1- 10 eV and resolution 15 Ko for 50 ms 

 

Space Research Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences,Moscow, (IKI RAN) 

 Geophysical Institute of Czech Academy of Science, Prague, Czech 

 Rebublic ((GFI CHSAN) 

NAM-5 

 mass-spectrometer 

Measurement of ion composition (1-60 a.m.) of plasma by radio frequency analyses, 3-4 ion species in 0.1 sec, 8-10 ion species in 0.3 sec:  IKI RAN 

 

GFI CHSAN 

PEAS 

 analysator of electrons and ions 

Measurement of a energy spectrum of electrons 30 ev - 30 kev in 12 directions for 1 sec  IKI RAN , GFI CHSAN 

 Prague University, 

 Research Institute of Nuclear Physics,Moscow State University;Russia 

DANI 

 spectrometer of low energy electrons and ions, 

 Langmuir Probe , 

 Rogovsky Belt 

Measurements of a spectrum of energies and pitch-angular distribution of electrons and ions ,of currents of indemnification , parameters of plasma 

 ( 4 detectors in one device) 

 

IZMIRAN 

 Space Research Central 

Laboratory, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 

 Sofia,Bulgaria

 
NVK-ONCH low-frequency wave complex 

 

Measurement of a spectrum an electrical and magnetic components of low-frequency electromagnetic radiation 

(0.1-20000 Hz) 

IZMIRAN 

 

VCH- VK 

 High-frequency wave complex 

The spectrum - analysis of high-frequency electromagnetic radiation, wave form (0.1 - 10 MHz) 

 

IZMIRAN, 

 Space Research Center, 

 Polish Academy of Sciences,Warsaw, Poland 

 

DEP-2 

 electric field 

 experiment 

Measurement of DC electric field , 3 components ,0.01 - 22 KHZ, 80 db a sensibility 4-10 nT/Hz  IZMIRAN, 

Space Research Institute, 

 Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 

 Sofia,Bulgaria (IKI BAN) 

SGR-5 

flux-gate magnetometer 

Measurement of three components DC magnetic field ,64000 n?  IZMIRAN, 

Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 

 Sofia,Bulgaria 

MNCH-2 

 low-frequency search coil magnetometer 

Researches of low-frequency fluctuations of a magnetic field 3 components 0.1 - 10 Hz, 40 nT or 400 nT a sensibility 1 nT 

 

IZMIRAN 
FS 

Photometer 

 

scanning spectrometer , 3194- 6563 A. 

 The peak and spatial spectrum - analysis of optical radiations in lines 3194- 

 6563 A 

Optical Laboratory of Space Research Institute, 

 Bulgarian Academy of Sciences,Staraja Zagora, 

 Bulgaria 

UF-3K 

 3-chanal 

 Photometer 

 

3-channel photospectrometer , angle of view 8 , lines: 3194, .5577, 6300A ;  IZMIRAN, 

 Kiev State University.