This experiment consisted of two ionization chambers mounted 60 deg apart on the equator of the GREB 3 satellite along with a sun aspect sensor and telemetry antennas. These detectors were designed to measure solar X rays in the 2 to 8-A and 8 to 20-A bands and were mounted behind permanent magnets to shield them from penetration by energetic protons (less than 1 MeV) and electrons (less than 1 MeV) in the Van Allen radiation belts. Each magnet and its aluminum retaining cover effectively limited the detector look cone to an angular diameter of approximately 60 deg. The spectral sensitivity of the X-ray detectors was determined by their aluminum windows and nitrogen gas filler. The solar aspect sensor was a vacuum photocell behind a specially designed aperture and was designed to measure the angle between the sun and the satellite's equatorial plane. Data handling was essentially the same as that used for the GREB 1 X-ray experiment. Current from the ionization chambers was measured by a feedback-stabilized electrometer amplifier. Data were then telemetered to the ground using real-time FM/AM telemetry and were recorded by NASA minitrack stations on magnetic tape. The failure of the GREB 3 satellite to separate from Injun 1 resulted in a complicated tumbling motion of the composite satellite, which made it generally impossible to identify unambiguously an X-ray response from one or the other ion chamber. Therefore, no data from the 2 to 8-A detector were obtained. Data from the 8 to 20-A detector, however, were obtained from favorable ion chamber-aspect sensor geometry configurations (69 observations) and from close coincidences between the 8 to 20-A detector and solar aspect sensor responses (32 observations). The ion chambers also suffered from three types of energetic particle interference: (1) inner-zone protons with E>1 MeV, (2) high-energy solar protons associated with solar proton events, and (3) high-energy outer-zone electrons (the strongest source of particle contamination). Data were obtained for the period June 29 to November 26, 1961.
This experiment consisted of two ionization chambers mounted 60 deg apart on the equator of the GREB 3 satellite along with a sun aspect sensor and telemetry antennas. These detectors were designed to measure solar X rays in the 2 to 8-A and 8 to 20-A bands and were mounted behind permanent magnets to shield them from penetration by energetic protons (less than 1 MeV) and electrons (less than 1 MeV) in the Van Allen radiation belts. Each magnet and its aluminum retaining cover effectively limited the detector look cone to an angular diameter of approximately 60 deg. The spectral sensitivity of the X-ray detectors was determined by their aluminum windows and nitrogen gas filler. The solar aspect sensor was a vacuum photocell behind a specially designed aperture and was designed to measure the angle between the sun and the satellite's equatorial plane. Data handling was essentially the same as that used for the GREB 1 X-ray experiment. Current from the ionization chambers was measured by a feedback-stabilized electrometer amplifier. Data were then telemetered to the ground using real-time FM/AM telemetry and were recorded by NASA minitrack stations on magnetic tape. The failure of the GREB 3 satellite to separate from Injun 1 resulted in a complicated tumbling motion of the composite satellite, which made it generally impossible to identify unambiguously an X-ray response from one or the other ion chamber. Therefore, no data from the 2 to 8-A detector were obtained. Data from the 8 to 20-A detector, however, were obtained from favorable ion chamber-aspect sensor geometry configurations (69 observations) and from close coincidences between the 8 to 20-A detector and solar aspect sensor responses (32 observations). The ion chambers also suffered from three types of energetic particle interference: (1) inner-zone protons with E>1 MeV, (2) high-energy solar protons associated with solar proton events, and (3) high-energy outer-zone electrons (the strongest source of particle contamination). Data were obtained for the period June 29 to November 26, 1961.
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