ACCESS—Advanced Cosmic-ray Composition Experiment for Space Station—was selected as a new Mission Concept under NRA 96-OSS-03, with the goal of combining calorimeter and transition radiation techniques to provide measurements of cosmic rays from Hydrogen through Nickel up to energies approaching the “knee” in the cosmic ray all particle spectrum, plus providing measurements of the (Ultra-Heavy) nuclei at all energies. An instrument to perform such an investigation is undergoing an ISS/STS Accommodation Study at JSC. The instrument concept, the mission plan, and the accommodation issues for an ISS attached payload which include, in part, the carrier, ISS Site, thermal control, power, data and operations are described and the current status of these issues, for an ACCESS Mission, is summarized.
Advanced Cosmic-ray Composition Experiment for Space Station: ISS accommodation study
Space technology and applications international forum -1999 ; 1999 ; Albuquerque, New Mexico (USA)
AIP Conference Proceedings ; 458 , 1 ; 245-250
22.01.1999
6 pages
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Englisch
Advanced Cosmic-Ray Composition Experiment for Space Station: ISS Accommodation Study
British Library Conference Proceedings | 1999
|Advanced Cosmic-Ray Composition Experiment for the Space Station (ACCESS)
British Library Conference Proceedings | 1999
|Advanced cosmic-ray composition experiment for the space station (ACCESS)
American Institute of Physics | 1999
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