NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR LASER, PLASMA AND RADIATION PHYSICS

Profile

Fundamental and advanced technological research in space magnetometry and plasmas, remote sensing and space technology. Development of special computational and treatment techniques for satellite data processing.

• researches for the space magnetometers building

• the study of the electromagnetic wave propagation ( INTERBALL, APEX and AKTIVNYI experiments).

• the study of the structures induced by the geomagnetic field into the Near-Earth plasma;

• PRIRODA Project: On Board Data Processing Devices.

1. ON-BOARD EXPERIMENTAL DEVICES DESIGN AND   MANUFACTURING

• on-board data acquisition devices;

• pre-launch testing devices;

• software development.

2.SPACE PLASMA RESEARCH AND EXPERIMENTAL DATA PROCESSING AND ANALYSIS

3. APPLICATIONS OF  SPACE COMUNICATION

Main achievements:

• several space magnetometers mounted aboard 7 satellites: space magnetometers SG-R for the measurements of the Earth' magnetic field from circumterrestrial orbits;

• OnBoard Computing Device - for the infrared remote sensing spectrometer "ISTOK-1" from the complex remote sensing experiment "PRIRODA" aboard the scacecraft "MIR";

• prototypes for process control systems designated for embarked experiments;

• prototypes for command processor for unmanned flying microobjects;

• firmware and several software development tools for microprocessor driven experimental set-ups;

• software for data processing from neutron spectroscopy aboard Mars 96 mission;

• software designated for satellite magnetometry data processing.

Satellites and space stations with experiments from

Space Engineering Laboratory

Magnetrometry and cosmic plasmas:

Flight year	Satellites and space stations
1978	INTERKOSMOS 18
1980	INTERKOSMOS 20
1981	INTERKOSMOS 21
1989	INTERKOSMOS 24 AKTIVNII-S2
1991	INTERKOSMOS 25 APEX-S3
1995	INTERBALL 1-S4- Tail
1996	INTERBALL 2-S5-Auroral

Remote sensing:

Flight year	Satellites and space stations
1996	MIR-PRIRODA

Main achivements

- several space magnetometers mounted aboard 7 satellites;

- space magnetometers SG-R for the measurements of the Earth' magnetic field from circumterrestrial orbits;

- OnBoard Computing Device - for the infrared remote sensing spectrometer ISTOK-1 from the complex remote sensing experiment PRIRODA aboard the spacecraft MIR;

- prototypes for process control systems designated for embarked experiments;

- prototype for command processor for unmanned flying microobjects;

- firmware and several software development tools for microprocessor driven experimental set-ups;

- software designated for INTERBALL, EQUATOR-S and FAST satellite magnetometry data processing;

- hardware and software for the Automated Pointing System to be used in NOTTE Project.

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