2. Collaborations Italy Roma University Trieste University Florence University Bari University Russia Cosmic Ray Laboratory, Moscow Engineering and Physics Institute

3. 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

4. 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

5. NINA 1 Instrumentation Launch Results

6. 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

7. Silicon Detector

8. On-Board Computer

9. 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

10. Power Supply

11. Resurs-01-N4 Satellite

12. Launch

13. Results

14. Galactic Cosmic Ray’s Results

16. Solar Energetic Particle’s Results

17. NINA 2 Instrumentation Launch Results

18. Instrumentation

19. Silicon Detector

20. MITA Satellite

21. Launch

22. Results

23. Results

24. The Last Word