Foresail-1 Satellite Mission

Foresail-1 is a satellite mission of Finnish Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Space hosting two payloadsparticle telescope (PATE) from University of Turku and deorbiting device plasma brake from Finnish meteorological institute. Foresail-1 is a satellite mission of the Finnish Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Space, and its main payload is Particle Telescope (PATE), developed by the University of Turku. The PATE is a particle detector capable to measure electrons and protons, their energies and pitch angles. The electrons are monitored with a range of 80 to 1600 keV with a single channel, while the protons are monitored withrange of 8 to 30 MeV in two energy channels.

The TIERS group works on radiation-resistant hardware design and fault-tolerant software for a robust operation of the satellite.

Related Publications

[1] Philipp Oleynik, Rami Vainio, Hannu-Pekka Hedman, Arttu Punkkinen, Risto Punkkinen, Lassi Salomaa, Tero Säntti, Jarno Tuominen, Pasi Virtanen, Alexandre Bosser, Pekka Janhunen, Emilia Kilpua, Minna Palmroth, Jaan Praks, Andris Slavinskisc, Syed R. U. Kakakhel, Juhani Peltonen, Juha Plosila, Jani Tammi, Hannu Tenhunen, Tomi Westerlund, "Particle Telescope aboard FORESAIL-1: simulated performance", Advances in Space Research , Elsevier (2019) . (View) (Download) (Researchgate)

[2] M. Palmroth J. Praks R. Vainio P. Janhunen E. K. J. Kilpua A. Afanasiev M. Ala‐Lahti A. Alho T. Asikainen E. Asvestari M. Battarbee A. Binios A. Bosser T. Brito M. Dubart J. Envall U. Ganse N. Yu. Ganushkina H. George J. Gieseler S. Good M. Grandin S. Haslam H.‐P. Hedman H. Hietala N. Jovanovic S. Kakakhel M. Kalliokoski V. V. Kettunen T. Koskela E. Lumme M. Meskanen D. Morosan M. Rizwan Mughal P. Niemelä S. Nyman P. Oleynik A. Osmane E. Palmerio J. Peltonen Y. Pfau‐Kempf J. Plosila J. Polkko S. Poluianov J. Pomoell D. Price A. Punkkinen R. Punkkinen B. Riwanto L. Salomaa A. Slavinskis T. Säntti J. Tammi H. Tenhunen P. Toivanen J. Tuominen L. Turc E. Valtonen P. Virtanen T. Westerlund, "FORESAIL‐1 CubeSat Mission to Measure Radiation Belt Losses and Demonstrate Deorbiting", Journal of geophysical research : space physics , Wiley (2019) . (View) (Download) (Researchgate)