AbstractDUNE-eXpress (DUst measurement near Earth) is a scientific application of the ConeXpress platform developed by Dutch Space [Scholten, H., Nugteren, P.R., de Kam, J., Cruijssen, H. ConeXpress – low cost access to space, white paper Dutch Space, Leiden, The Netherlands, 2003; Kassebom, M., Mahal, S., Scholten, H., et al. ConeXpress – a low cost satellite solution for GEO applications, DGLR-2003-115, in: Olbert, F. (Ed.), German Aerospace Congress, Munich, Germany, 2003] The goal of this mission is to investigate in situ the physical and dynamical properties of interstellar and interplanetary dust. The Dust Telescope on-board DUNE-eXpress consists of two large area mass analyzer (LAMA) instrument modules and four dust Trajectory Sensors with a total weight of 60kg. LAMA measures the chemical composition of individual dust grains whereas the Trajectory Sensor determines their orbital parameters.DUNE-eXpress reaches an orbit outside the geostationary distance in order to avoid interferences with the Earth debris and magnetosphere environment. A position at the Sun–Earth Lagrange points L1 and L2 is well suited and reachable with DUNE-eXpress. A mission scenario based on the SMART 1 mission is presented.


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    Title :

    DUNE-eXpress – Dust astronomy with ConeXpress


    Contributors:
    Srama, R. (author) / Altobelli, N. (author) / de Kam, J. (author) / Kempf, S. (author) / Krüger, H. (author) / Lera, S. (author) / Moragas-Klostermeyer, G. (author) / Rachev, M. (author) / Srowig, A. (author) / Landgraf, M. (author)

    Published in:

    Advances in Space Research ; 38 , 9 ; 2093-2101


    Publication date :

    2005-09-05


    Size :

    9 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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