R3D-B2, Inside ESA Biopan-5, Outside Foton M2 satellite
Satellite provider: ROSCOSMOS
Experiment name: ESA Biopan-5
Instrument name: R3D-B2
Cooperation: Bulgaria, Germany
Begin-end of data: 01/06/2005-12/06/2005
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
Units: Size [mm]/Mass [kg]: 1 DU (57 ×82 ×24 mm, 0.12 kg))
Place, inside of the Biopan-5 facility, outside Foton M2 satellite
Shielding [g cm-2]: 1.75 g cm-2
Resolution [sec]/[min]: 60 sec
External view of Biopan-5 facility
External view of R3D-B2 instrument
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); flux (FLUX) (1/cm2 s); absorbed dose rate (DOSE) (mGy/hour); D/F (nGy cm2 particle-1); COUNTS per 1 minute; (ch1-ch243); ch255. The R3D-B2 full text “DATA SOURCES” data is presented in 1 file available online at: http://esa-pro.space.bas.bg/datasources/R3D_B2. The full text files are in csv format.
Additional references, concerning R3D-B2 data:
Dachev, T., B. Tomov, Pl. Dimitrov, Yu. Matviichuk and D.-P. Häder, Space radiation results obtained with R3D-B2 instrument on Foton M2 satellite in June 2005, 10th WRMISS, Chiba, Japan, 8-10 September 2005. http://wrmiss.org/workshops/tenth/pdf/11_dachev.pdf
Dachev, T., Pl. Dimitrov, B. Tomov, Yu. Matviichuk, N. Bankov, D.-P. Häder, Radiation Belts as observed by R3D-B2 instrument on ESA Foton M2 satellite in June 2005, Parer presented at COST 724, Athens, Greece, 13 October, 2005. http://www.iono.noa.gr/cost724/Documents/WG2/Dachev.pdf
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. Uchihor, 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
Please acknowledge data provider:
Tsvetan Dachev, SRTI-BAS: tdachev@bas.bg or: tdachev59@gmail.com