PLASMA-F experiment: Three years of on-orbit operation

Abstrakt

Composition and tasks of the PLAZMA-F experiment onboard the SPEKTR-R satellite are described in this paper. A record high time resolution is a feature of solar wind plasma flux and energetic particle flux measurements.

It allowed detecting a number of new and significant properties and parameters.

Klíčová slova

• solar wind
• Earth magnetosphere
• magnetosheath
• plasma energy spectrometer
• energetic particle monitor