The Experiment for Space Radiation Analysis: A 12U CubeSat to Explore the Earth's Radiation Belts
Carlos Maldónado, Jonathan Deming, Brooke N. Mosley, Keith Morgan, Justin McGlown, Anthony Nelson, Phil A. Fernandes, Martin Kroupa, Kim Katko, Markus P. Hehlen, Daniel Arnold, J. Barney, Claira Safi, Michelle Pyle, Ted Schultz, Dan Reisenfeld, R. M. Skoug, Angus Guider, Michael Holloway, Heidi Morning, Erik Krause, Benigno Sandoval, Darrel Beckman, Zachary Miller, Rob Merl, Paul Graham, Thaddeus Peter White, Zephram Tripp, Brad Hoose, Caleb Roecker, A. Klimenko, Richard Dutch, Kevin Kaufeld, Elaine Cox, Quinn Cole, Chuck Clanton, Peter F. Bloser, B. Larsen, Tom Fairbanks, Jeff George, John Michel, Eric L. Alpine, Casey Kelby, Brent F. Abbott
Abstract
The Experiment for Space Radiation Analysis (ESRA) is the next in the series of Demonstration and Validation (DemVal) projects the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) program will fly. The ESRA program will mature technologies such as the novel Wide-field-of-view Plasma Spectrometer (WPS) and the Energetic Charged Particle (ECP) telescope, along with high voltage power supply, a 3U Eurocard single board computers, flight software architecture, and analog-to-digital electronics. The WPS and ECP sensors are intended to actively monitor the local space environment, thus allowing for the attribution and rapid anomaly resolution of unanticipated instrument or spacecraft behavior as a result of space weather effects.