The USNA MIDN microdosimeter instrument

V. L. Pisacane; J. F. Ziegler; M. E. Nelson; Q. Dolecek; J. Heyne; T. Veade; A. B. Rosenfeld; F. A. Cucinotta; M. Zaider; J. F. Dicello

The USNA MIDN microdosimeter instrument

V. L. Pisacane, J. F. Ziegler, M. E. Nelson, Q. Dolecek, J. Heyne, T. Veade, A. B. Rosenfeld, F. A. Cucinotta, M. Zaider, J. F. Dicello

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This paper describes the MIcroDosimetry iNstrument (MIDN) mission now under development at the United States Naval Academy. The instrument is manifested to fly on the MidSTAR-1 spacecraft, which is the second spacecraft to be developed and launched by the Academy's faculty and midshipmen. Launch is scheduled for 1 September 2006 on an ATLAS-5 launch vehicle. MIDN is a rugged, portable, low power, low mass, solid-state microdosimeter designed to measure in real time the energy distributions of energy deposited by radiation in microscopic volumes. The MIDN microdosimeter sensor is a reverse-biased silicon p-n junction array in a Silicon-On-Insulator (SOI) configuration. Microdosimetric frequency distributions as a function of lineal energies determine the radiation quality factors in support of radiation risk estimation to humans.

Original language	English (US)
Pages	11989-12000
Number of pages	12
State	Published - Dec 1 2005
Event	43rd AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit - Reno, NV, United States Duration: Jan 10 2005 → Jan 13 2005

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Other	43rd AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit
Country/Territory	United States
City	Reno, NV
Period	1/10/05 → 1/13/05

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