Satellite provider: ROSCOSMOS
Experiment name: ESA Biopan-6
Instrument name: R3D-B3

Cooperation: Bulgaria, Germany
Begin-end of data: 14/09/2007-26/09/2007
PI/CoPI: G. Horneck, DLR; D. Häder, UE; Ts. Dachev, SRTI
Main description Reference:
Häder et al., 2009), http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2009.01.021
Damasso et al., 2009), http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radmeas.2009.03.007
Units: Size [mm]/Mass [kg]: 1 DU (57 ×82 ×24 mm, 0.12 kg))
Place: inside of the Biopan-6 facility, outside Foton M3
Shielding [g cm^-2]: 0.8 g cm^-2
Resolution [sec]/[min]: 60 sec

External view of Biopan-6 facility

External view of R3D-B3 instrument

The block-diagram of R3D-B3 instrument is identical of the block-diagram of R3D-B2 instrument.

Dose measurement algorithms and formulas*

*Note: The dose measurement algorithms are same as in Liulin-E094 instrument.

“DATA SOURCES” string description

Date/Time (DD/MM/YYYY hh:mm:ss); altitude (ALT) (km); longitude (LONG) (deg); latitude (LAT) (deg); L value (L); total magnetic field strength (BMAG) (Gauss); MLT(hours); DLAT(Deg); INVLAT(Deg); flux (FLUX) (1/cm² s); absorbed dose rate (DOSE) (mGy/hour); D/F (nGy cm² particle^-1); (ch1-ch241). All R3D-B2 full text data “DATA SOURCES” is presented in 1 file available online at: http://esa-pro.space.bas.bg/datasources/R3D_B3. The full text files are in csv format.

Additional references, concerning R3D-B3 data:

Dachev, Ts.P., B.T. Tomov, Yu.N. Matviichuk, P.G. Dimitrov, N.G. Bankov, Relativistic Electrons High Doses at International Space Station and Foton M2/M3 Satellites, Adv. Space Res., 44, 1433-1440, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2009.09.023

Dachev, Ts.P., Characterization of near Earth radiation environment by Liulin type instruments, Adv. Space Res., 44, 1441-1449, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2009.08.007

Dachev, T.P., J.V. Semkova, B.T. Tomov, Yu.N. Matviichuk, Pl.G. S. Maltchev, R. Koleva, Pl., Dimitrov, N.G. Bankov, V.V., Shurshakov, V.V., Benghin, E.N., Yarmanova, O.A. Ivanova, D.-P. Häder, M.T. Schuster, G. Reitz, G. Horneck, Y. Uchihort, H. Kitamura, O. Ploc,  J. Kubancak, I. Nikolaev, Overview of the Liulin type instruments for space radiation measurement and their scientific results, 92–114, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.lssr.2015.01.005

Damasso M., Dachev Ts., Falzetta G., Giardi M.T., Rea G., Zanini A., The radiation environment observed by Liulin-Photo and R3D-B3 spectrum-dosimeters inside and outside Foton-M3 spacecraft, Radiation Measurements, V. 44, N0 3, 263-272, 2009. doi:10.1016/j.radmeas.2009.03.007

Please acknowledge data provider:

Tsvetan Dachev, SRTI-BAS: tdachev@bas.bg or: tdachev59@gmail.com

URL: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=uzmW_mwAAAAJ