The Extreme Universe Space Observatory on a Super Pressure Balloon (EUSO-SPB1) is a path-finder mission within the JEM-EUSO program with the aim of detecting, for the first time from the edge of space, Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays by means of the fluorescence technique. EUSO SPB was launched April 24th 23:51 UTC 2017 from Wanaka, New Zealand as a mission of opportunity on a NASA super pressure balloon test flight planned to circle the southern hemisphere. After 12 days 4 h aloft, the flight was terminated prematurely in the Pacific Ocean about 300 km SE of Easter Island. This presentation will review the instrument and its in-flight performance. Preparations for a EUSO-SPB2 mission is underway. © 2018 Elsevier B.V.
EUSO-SPB: In-flight performance / Osteria, G.; Scotti, V.; for the JEM-EUSO, Collaboration. - In: NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH. SECTION A, ACCELERATORS, SPECTROMETERS, DETECTORS AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT. - ISSN 0168-9002. - 936:(2019), pp. 237-238. [10.1016/j.nima.2018.10.213]
EUSO-SPB: In-flight performance
Scotti, V.;
2019
Abstract
The Extreme Universe Space Observatory on a Super Pressure Balloon (EUSO-SPB1) is a path-finder mission within the JEM-EUSO program with the aim of detecting, for the first time from the edge of space, Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays by means of the fluorescence technique. EUSO SPB was launched April 24th 23:51 UTC 2017 from Wanaka, New Zealand as a mission of opportunity on a NASA super pressure balloon test flight planned to circle the southern hemisphere. After 12 days 4 h aloft, the flight was terminated prematurely in the Pacific Ocean about 300 km SE of Easter Island. This presentation will review the instrument and its in-flight performance. Preparations for a EUSO-SPB2 mission is underway. © 2018 Elsevier B.V.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
