Ebook: The Freja Mission

Freja is a joint Swedish and German satellite, launched on October 6, 1992 and orbiting at 600--1750 km, covering the lower part of the auroral acceleration region. It has been designed to provide high-resolution measurements (both temporal and spatial) of auroral plasma characteristics. The high telemetry rate, together with the 15 Mbyte distributed on-board memories allow Freja to resolve meso and micro-scale phenomena in the 100 m range for particles and 1--10 m range for electric and magnetic fields. The UV imager resolves auroral structures of 1 km size at a time resolution of one image every 6 s. The novel plasma instruments are orders of magnitude better than any that have gone before.
The Freja Mission is about the scientific objectives, instruments and platform itself. Detailed descriptions are given of the instrumentation and the first data acquired. It is one of the very few books to contain such material in a single volume, relating the instruments' design with their in-flight characteristics.
For space engineers and other researchers interested in space science.

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Freja is a joint Swedish and German satellite, launched on October 6, 1992 and orbiting at 600--1750 km, covering the lower part of the auroral acceleration region. It has been designed to provide high-resolution measurements (both temporal and spatial) of auroral plasma characteristics. The high telemetry rate, together with the 15 Mbyte distributed on-board memories allow Freja to resolve meso and micro-scale phenomena in the 100 m range for particles and 1--10 m range for electric and magnetic fields. The UV imager resolves auroral structures of 1 km size at a time resolution of one image every 6 s. The novel plasma instruments are orders of magnitude better than any that have gone before.
The Freja Mission is about the scientific objectives, instruments and platform itself. Detailed descriptions are given of the instrumentation and the first data acquired. It is one of the very few books to contain such material in a single volume, relating the instruments' design with their in-flight characteristics.
For space engineers and other researchers interested in space science.

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Freja is a joint Swedish and German satellite, launched on October 6, 1992 and orbiting at 600--1750 km, covering the lower part of the auroral acceleration region. It has been designed to provide high-resolution measurements (both temporal and spatial) of auroral plasma characteristics. The high telemetry rate, together with the 15 Mbyte distributed on-board memories allow Freja to resolve meso and micro-scale phenomena in the 100 m range for particles and 1--10 m range for electric and magnetic fields. The UV imager resolves auroral structures of 1 km size at a time resolution of one image every 6 s. The novel plasma instruments are orders of magnitude better than any that have gone before.
The Freja Mission is about the scientific objectives, instruments and platform itself. Detailed descriptions are given of the instrumentation and the first data acquired. It is one of the very few books to contain such material in a single volume, relating the instruments' design with their in-flight characteristics.
For space engineers and other researchers interested in space science.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-v
The Freja Science Mission....Pages 1-15
The Freja Ultraviolet Imager....Pages 17-42
The Electron Beam Instrument (F6) on Freja....Pages 43-59
Magnetic Field Experiment on the Freja Satellite....Pages 61-78
The Double Probe Electric Field Experiment on Freja: Experiment Description and First Results....Pages 79-104
The TESP Electron Spectrometer and Correlator (F7) on Freja....Pages 105-136
The Freja F3C Cold Plasma Analyzer....Pages 137-157
The Freja Hot Plasma Experiment — Instrument and First Results....Pages 159-172
The Freja Wave and Plasma Density Experiment....Pages 173-188
Plasma Characteristics Determined by the Freja Electric Field Instrument....Pages 189-198
Back Matter....Pages 199-206

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Freja is a joint Swedish and German satellite, launched on October 6, 1992 and orbiting at 600--1750 km, covering the lower part of the auroral acceleration region. It has been designed to provide high-resolution measurements (both temporal and spatial) of auroral plasma characteristics. The high telemetry rate, together with the 15 Mbyte distributed on-board memories allow Freja to resolve meso and micro-scale phenomena in the 100 m range for particles and 1--10 m range for electric and magnetic fields. The UV imager resolves auroral structures of 1 km size at a time resolution of one image every 6 s. The novel plasma instruments are orders of magnitude better than any that have gone before.
The Freja Mission is about the scientific objectives, instruments and platform itself. Detailed descriptions are given of the instrumentation and the first data acquired. It is one of the very few books to contain such material in a single volume, relating the instruments' design with their in-flight characteristics.
For space engineers and other researchers interested in space science.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-v
The Freja Science Mission....Pages 1-15
The Freja Ultraviolet Imager....Pages 17-42
The Electron Beam Instrument (F6) on Freja....Pages 43-59
Magnetic Field Experiment on the Freja Satellite....Pages 61-78
The Double Probe Electric Field Experiment on Freja: Experiment Description and First Results....Pages 79-104
The TESP Electron Spectrometer and Correlator (F7) on Freja....Pages 105-136
The Freja F3C Cold Plasma Analyzer....Pages 137-157
The Freja Hot Plasma Experiment — Instrument and First Results....Pages 159-172
The Freja Wave and Plasma Density Experiment....Pages 173-188
Plasma Characteristics Determined by the Freja Electric Field Instrument....Pages 189-198
Back Matter....Pages 199-206
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