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EP: Fachverband Extraterrestrische Physik

EP 5: Postersitzung

EP 5.12: Poster

Tuesday, March 18, 2014, 16:30–18:30, DO24 Foyer

The Current Status of Model Development of the Electron and Proton Telescope for Solar Orbiter — •Jan Steinhagen, S.R. Kulkarni, Jan Tammen, Sebastian Boden, Robert Elftmann, César Martin, Ali Ravanbakhsh, Stephan I. Böttcher, Lars Seimetz, Björn Schuster, and Robert Wimmer-Schweingruber — Institute for Experimental and Applied Physics, University of Kiel

ESA's Solar Orbiter mission, scheduled for launch in January 2017, will study how the sun creates the inner heliosphere. Therefore, the spacecraft will perform in situ and remote sensing measurements of the sun on a high inclination orbit with a perihelion of about 60 solar radii, making it possible to observe the poles of the sun from nearby. The Energetic Particle Detector suite on-board of Solar Orbiter will measure particles of a wide energy range and from multiple directions. One of the important sensors of the EPD suite is the Electron Proton Telescope. It consists of two antiparallel telescopes with two silicon detectors respectively and is designed to detect electrons between 20 - 400 keV and protons from 20 keV to 7 MeV. EPT relies on a magnet/foil technique to discriminate between electrons and protons. Here, we present the testing of the Structural and Thermal Model, which has already been delivered to ASTRIUM for spacecraft level tests as well as the integration and testing of the Engineering Model, which already provides full electrical functionality.