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| INSTITUTET FÖR RYMDFYSIK | Space Plasma Physics programme, UPPSALA |
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| Swedish Institute of Space Physics | (59o50.272'N, 17o38.786'E) |
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Rosetta is an ambitious project catching up with a comet, following it in its orbit for two years (2014-2016), putting a lander (Nov 2014) and finally itself onto the surface of the comet nucleus. Our onboard space weather station LAP was active from start to end! |
| Back to Rosetta LAP home page |
RPC -- the Rosetta Plasma Consortium
Our LAP instrument is one of five instruments (see list below) in a comprehensive "plasma package" on Rosetta, known as the Rosetta Plasma Consortium (RPC). Together, we can characterize the plasma around the comet quite completely, thereby learning about the interactions of the comet with the solar wind as well as about the characteristics of the comet itself.
Engineers and scientists of the RPC team watching the screens at the European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) in Darmstadt as the first RPC data arrive in March 2004.
The RPC instruments
| Acronym |
Name |
PI
institute |
Measures |
| LAP |
Dual Langmuir Probe
Instrument |
Swedish Institute of
Space Physics, Uppsala |
Plasma density,
temperature, flow speed, electric field < 8 kHz, etc. |
| MIP | Mutual Impedance
Probe |
Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie de l'Environnement, Orléans, France | Plasma density, temperature, flow speed, electric field 7 kHz -- 3.5 MHz, etc. |
| MAG | Fluxgate Magnetometer |
Institut für Geophysik und Meteorologie, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany | Magnetic field <
25 Hz |
| IES | Ion and Electron
Sensor |
Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas | Ion and electron
spectra (energy and direction) |
| ICA | Ion Composition
Analyzer |
Swedish Institute of
Space Physics, Kiruna |
Ion spectra (energy,
angle and mass) |
| PIU | Plasma Interface Unit |
Space and
Atmospheric Physics, Imperial College, London |
Coordination of the
RPC sensors |
More about RPC can be found at the PIU team web pages.