Maxidusty-2

Payload Overview

The instruments are provided by UiT, MISU, IAP and UiO.

  • DUSTY a Faraday cup detector used on rockets since the 1990s; measures dust charge number density of particles larger than 2 nm. (UiT)
  • SPID a modified version of DUSTY to reduce the effect of airflow and use triboelectric charging; SPID was operational on the G-Chaser student rocket. (UiT)
  • MUDD modified Faraday cup detector impacting particles are fragmenting, heated and partially evaporates. Two MUDD with different bias voltages improve resolution of the measurements. (UiT) 
  • MESS dust collector equipped with conic funnel that increases the collection area and fragments larger particles that hit the funnel. MESS collects non-melting parts, supposedly MSP that are embedded in ice particles; it directly collects MSP  > 1 nm. (UiT)
  • MAGIC sample collector consisting of up to 9 sampling pins mounted in a revolver mechanism that subsequently pushes the pins out during flight. (MISU)
  • Faraday rotation experiment to measure electron content between rocket payload and ground receiver. Derived absolute values are insensitive to payload charging or aerodynamic effects. (MISU)
  • CONE is a classical triode type ionization gauge for 10-5 to 1 mbar, suitable to measure absolute neutral air number densities at altitudes 70 to 120 km and to resolve turbulent air density fluctuations. (IAP)
  • mLP Multi-needle Langmuir probe system of miniaturized probes to measure electron density with high sampling rate to resolve small-scale fluctuations. (UiO)