Measurement of the directional distribution of incident particles in the Shuttle-Mir mission orbit

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 104, Issue A10, 1999, Pages 22793-22799

  Sakaguchi, Takao ^a   Doke, Tadayoshi ^a   Hasebe, Nobuyuki ^a   Kikuchi, Jun ^a   Kono, Sachiko ^a   Takagi, Toru ^a   Takahashi, Kenichi ^a   Nagaoka, Shunji ^b   Nakano, Tamotsu ^b   Takahashi, Shimpei ^b   Badhwar, Gautam D ^c  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^c NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COSMIC RADIATION; ELEMENTARY PARTICLE; FLIGHT EXPERIMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; LINEAR ENERGY TRANSFER; MANNED; NASA CENTER JSC; NASA DISCIPLINE RADIATION HEALTH; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIATION PROTECTION; SHORT DURATION; SOLAR ENERGY; SOUTH AMERICA; SPACE FLIGHT; STS-84 SHUTTLE PROJECT; THEORETICAL MODEL; WEIGHTLESSNESS;

NASA CENTER JSC; NASA DISCIPLINE RADIATION HEALTH;

FLIGHT EXPERIMENT; MANNED; SHORT DURATION; STS-84 SHUTTLE PROJECT;

ANISOTROPY; ATLANTIC OCEAN; COSMIC RADIATION; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; LINEAR ENERGY TRANSFER; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIATION PROTECTION; SOLAR ACTIVITY; SOUTH AMERICA; SPACE FLIGHT; WEIGHTLESSNESS;

EID: 0033205927     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999ja900231     Document Type: Article

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