ARMAS Flight Instrumentation

SET provides instrumentation for measuring the radiation environment on a variety of aerospace vehicles, including aircraft, UAVs, high altitude balloons, suborbital vehicles, cubesats, and the International Space Station. Each generation of ARMAS Flight Module (FM) is numbered and we are currently in the 9th generation design and build for ARMAS FMs. The specification sheets for many of the instruments are provided below.

Flight Module 1 (FM1)

History

  • 2013–2019:  NASA AFRC DC-8

Specification Sheet

Data repository

Current status: decommissioned

 

 

DC-8

Spec Sheet

ARMAS archive

 

Flight Module 2 (FM2)

History

  • 2015–present:  NSF HAO G-5
  • 2015–2019:  NOAA G-4

Specification Sheet

Data repository

Current status: active

 

Flight Module 3 (FM3)

History

  • 2015–present:  NASA AFRC ER-2

Specification Sheet

Data repository

Current status: active

 

 

ER-2

Spec Sheet

ARMAS archive

 

Flight Module 4 (FM4)

History

  • 2014–2017:  NASA AFRC DC-8

Specification Sheet

Data repository

Current status: decommissioned

 

 

Multiple aircraft

Spec Sheet

ARMAS archive

 

Flight Module 5 (FM5)

History

  • 2015–present: Multiple vehicles

Specification Sheet

Data repository

Current status: active

 

 

Multiple aircraft and balloons

Spec Sheet

ARMAS archive

 

Flight Module 6 (FM6)

History

  • 2016–2020: Multiple vehicles

Specification Sheet

Data repository

Current status: decommissioned

 

 

Multiple aircraft

Spec Sheet

ARMAS archive

 

Flight Module 7 (FM7)

History

  • 2018–present:  Multiple vehicles

Specification Sheet

Data repository

Current status: active

 

 

Multiple aircraft

Spec Sheet

ARMAS archive

 

Flight Module 8 (FM8)

History

  • 2020–present:  Cubesats

Specification Sheet

Data repository

Current status: active on orbit

 

 

Cubesat

Spec Sheet

ARMAS archive

 

Flight Module 10 (FM10)

Flight Module 11 (FM11)

Tissue Equivalent Proportional Counter (TEPC)

History

  • 2011–present: Multiple vehicles

Specification Sheet

Data repository

Current status: active

On loan from SolarMetrics

 

 

Multiple aircraft

Spec Sheet

ARMAS archive

 

Gamma Rad5 Spectrometer

History

  • 2020–present: WVE Stratollite

Specification Sheet

Data repository

Current status: active

Liulin-SET

History

Specification Sheet

Data repository

Current status: active