Abstract
The Plasma Experiment for Planetary Exploration (PEPE) flown on Deep Space 1 combines an ion mass spectrometer and an electron spectrometer in a single, low-resource instrument. Among its novel features PEPE incorporates an electrostatically swept field-of-view and a linear electric field time-of-flight mass spectrometer. A significant amount of effort went into developing six novel technologies that helped reduce instrument mass to 5.5 kg and average power to 9.6 W. PEPE's performance was demonstrated successfully by extensive measurements made in the solar wind and during the DS1 encounter with Comet 19P/Borrelly in September 2001.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 327-357 |
Number of pages | 31 |
Journal | Space Science Reviews |
Volume | 129 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Apr 2007 |
Externally published | Yes |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Space and Planetary Science
Keywords
- Comet 19P/Borrelly
- Comets
- Mass spectrometry
- Plasma spectrometry