Collaborations Italy Roma University Trieste University Florence University Bari University Russia Cosmic Ray Laboratory, Moscow Engineering and Physics Institute
Where Was I Hiding? NINA 1 The Baikonur launch facility in Russia 10 th of July 1998 August 31 st, 1998 NINA 2 The cosmodrome of Plesetsk in Russia July the 15 th, 2000
Goals NINA has been built in order to investigate the nuclear and isotopic composition of low energy cosmic particles, by means of two satellite missions, NINA 1 and NINA 2.NINA 1 NINA 2
NINA 1 Instrumentation Launch Results
Instrumentation Silicon Detector (Box D1)Silicon Detector On-board computer (Box D2)On-board computer Power supply (Box P)Power supply Interface computer (Box E)Interface computer Resurs-01-N4 SatelliteResurs-01-N4
Silicon Detector
On-Board Computer
Interface Computer Duties Receiving data from box D2 (On-Board Computer) Re-coding the data from D2 in a format which is compatible with adding information of telemetry and the UT (Universal Time) to each event Receiving telecommands from the satellite related to the box E status Delivery of the final data to the telemetry of the satellite
Power Supply
Resurs-01-N4 Satellite
Launch
Results
Galactic Cosmic Ray’s Results
Solar Energetic Particle’s Results
NINA 2 Instrumentation Launch Results
Instrumentation
Silicon Detector
MITA Satellite
Launch
Results
Results
The Last Word