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The second generation Extreme Universe Space Observatory on a Super-Pressure Balloon (EUSO-SPB2) mission is a stratospheric balloon mission developed within the Joint Exploratory Missions for Extreme Universe Space Observatory (JEM-EUSO)…

The Payload for Ultrahigh Energy Observations (PUEO) long-duration balloon experiment is designed to have world-leading sensitivity to ultrahigh-energy neutrinos at energies above 1 EeV. Probing this energy region is essential for…

The Mini-EUSO instrument is a UV telescope to be placed inside the International Space Station (ISS), looking down on the Earth from a nadir-facing window in the Russian Zvezda module. Mini-EUSO will map the earth in the UV range (300 - 400…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-18 Francesca Capel , Alexander Belov , Marco Casolino , Pavel Klimov

Mini-EUSO (Extreme Universe Space Observatory) is a small-scale prototype cosmic-ray detector that will measure Earth`s UV emission and other atmospheric phenomena from space. It will be placed in the International Space Station (ISS)…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-11 Viktoria Kungel , Mario E. Bertaina , Francesca Bisconti , Marco Casolino , Johannes Eser , Lawrence Wiencke , JEM-EUSO Collaboration

The main goal of The Extreme Universe Space Observatory on a Super Pressure Balloon (EUSO-SPB1) was to observe from above extensive air showers caused by ultra-high energy cosmic rays. EUSO-SPB1 uses a fluorescence detector that observes…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-10 Michal Vrábel , Ján Genči , Pavol Bobik , Francesca Bisconti

Observations that require large physical instrument dimensions and/or a considerable amount of cryogens, as it is the case for high spatial resolution far infrared (FIR) astronomy, currently still face technological limits for their…

Mini-EUSO is a space experiment selected to be installed inside the International Space Station. It has a compact telescope with a large field of view ($44 $\times$ 44$ sq. deg.) focusing light on an array of photo-multipliers tubes in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-02 Sara Turriziani , Jonah Ekelund , Katsuhiko Tsuno , Marco Casolino , Toshikazu Ebisuzaki

The Extreme Universe Space Observatory-Telescope Array (EUSO-TA) is a ground-based experiment, part of the JEM-EUSO (Joint Experiment Missions -- Extreme Universe Space Observatory) dedicated to the observation of Ultra High Energy Cosmic…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-12 Z. Plebaniak , J. Szabelski , M. Przybylak , L. W. Piotrowski , A. Djakonow , K. Krolik

JEM-EUSO is an international program for the development of space based Ultra High Cosmic Ray observatories. The program consists of a series of missions which are either under development or in the data analysis phase. The instruments…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-27 Francesco Fenu , Kenji Shinozaki , Hiroko Miyamoto , Alessandro Liberatore , Naoto Sakaki , Sergei Sharakin , Mikhail Zotov , Gabriel Chiritoi

Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECRs) offer a unique chance to study the universe at energies inaccessible by man-made accelerators. Observations by ground based observatories have clarified several characteristics of these particles, but…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-05 M. Casolino

The Joint Experiment Missions for Extreme Universe Observatory comprises a collection of complementary missions dedicated to pioneering technologies and techniques for a future space-based multi-messenger observatory which will have…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-10 Thomas C. Paul

Mini-EUSO is a compact telescope ($37 \times 37 \times 62$~cm$^3$) currently hosted on board the International Space Station. Mini-EUSO is devoted primarily to study Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECR) above $10^{21}$~eV but also to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-10 G. Cambié , A. Belov , F. Capel , M. Casolino , A. Franceschi , P. Klimov , L. Marcelli , T. Napolitano , P. Picozza , L. W. Piotrowski , E. Reali , M. Ricci

This paper reports on the current status of the World Space Observatory WSO-UV, a space mission for UV astronomy, planned for launch at the beginning of next decade. It is based on a 1.7 m telescope, with focal plane instruments including…

JEM--EUSO is an international program for the development of space-based Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Ray observatories. The program consists of a series of missions which are either under development or in the data analysis phase. All…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-22 S. Abe , J. H. Adams , D. Allard , P. Alldredge , L. Anchordoqui , A. Anzalone , E. Arnone , B. Baret , D. Barghini , M. Battisti , J. Bayer , R. Bellotti , A. A. Belov , M. Bertaina , P. F. Bertone , M. Bianciotto , P. L. Biermann , F. Bisconti , C. Blaksley , S. Blin-Bondil , P. Bobik , K. Bolmgren , S. Briz , J. Burton , F. Cafagna , G. Cambié , D. Campana , F. Capel , R. Caruso , M. Casolino , C. Cassardo , A. Castellina , K. Černý , M. J. Christl , R. Colalillo , L. Conti , G. Cotto , H. J. Crawford , R. Cremonini , A. Creusot , A. Cummings , A. de Castro Gónzalez , C. de la Taille , L. del Peral , R. Diesing , P. Dinaucourt , A. Di Nola , A. Ebersoldt , T. Ebisuzaki , J. Eser , F. Fenu , S. Ferrarese , G. Filippatos , W. W. Finch , F. Flaminio , C. Fornaro , D. Fuehne , C. Fuglesang , M. Fukushima , D. Gardiol , G. K. Garipov , A. Golzio , P. Gorodetzky , F. Guarino , C. Guépin , A. Guzmán , A. Haungs , T. Heibges , J. Hernández-Carretero , F. Isgrò , E. G. Judd , F. Kajino , I. Kaneko , Y. Kawasaki , M. Kleifges , P. A. Klimov , I. Kreykenbohm , J. F. Krizmanic , V. Kungel , E. Kuznetsov , F. López Martínez , S. Mackovjak , D. Mandát , M. Manfrin , A. Marcelli , L. Marcelli , W. Marszał , J. N. Matthews , A. Menshikov , T. Mernik , M. Mese , S. S. Meyer , J. Mimouni , H. Miyamoto , Y. Mizumoto , A. Monaco , J. A Morales de los Ríos , S. Nagataki , J. M. Nachtman , D. Naumov , A. Neronov , T. Nonaka , T. Ogawa , S. Ogio , H. Ohmori , A. V. Olinto , Y. Onel , G. Osteria , A. Pagliaro , B. Panico , E. Parizot , I. H. Park , B. Pastircak , T. Paul , M. Pech , F. Perfetto , P. Picozza , L. W. Piotrowski , Z. Plebaniak , J. Posligua , R. Prevete , G. Prévôt , H. Prieto , M. Przybylak , M. Putis , E. Reali , P. Reardon , M. H. Reno , M. Ricci , M. Rodríguez Frías , G. Romoli , G. Sáez Cano , H. Sagawa , N. Sakaki , A. Santangelo , O. A. Saprykin , F. Sarazin , M. Sato , H. Schieler , P. Schovánek , V. Scotti , S. Selmane , S. A. Sharakin , K. Shinozaki , J. F. Soriano , J. Szabelski , N. Tajima , T. Tajima , Y. Takahashi , M. Takeda , Y. Takizawa , C. Tenzer , S. B. Thomas , L. G. Tkachev , T. Tomida , S. Toscano , M. Traïche , D. Trofimov , K. Tsuno , P. Vallania , L. Valore , T. M. Venters , C. Vigorito , P. von Ballmoos , M. Vrabel , S. Wada , J. Watts , A. Weindl , L. Wiencke , J. Wilms , D. Winn , H. Wistrand , I. V. Yashin , R. Young , M. Yu. Zotov

The World Space Observatory/Ultraviolet (WSO/UV) represents a new mission implementation model for large space missions for astrophysics. The process has been brought up to enable, fully scientific needs driven, a logic to be applied to the…

Popular Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 W. Wamsteker , H. J. Haubold

Mini-EUSO is a UV telescope that will look downwards to the Earth's atmosphere onboard the International Space Station. With the design of the ultra-high energy cosmic ray fluorescence detectors belonging to the JEM-EUSO program, it will…

EUSO-SPB1 was released on April 24th, 2017, from the NASA balloon launch site in Wanaka (New Zealand) and landed on the South Pacific Ocean on May 7th. The data collected by the instruments onboard the balloon were analyzed to search UV…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-16 Alessandro Bruno , Anna Anzalone , Carlo Vigorito

The EUSO (Extreme Universe Space Observatory) project is developing a new mission concept for the scientific research of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECRs) from space. The EUSO wide-field telescope will look down from space onto the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-12 Enrico Bozzo , Thomas Burch , Alessandra Ciapponi , Clemens Heese , Arno Hoogerwerf , Nicholas Lan , Andrii Neronov , Vincent Revol , Ross Stanley

Balloon-borne astronomy is a unique tool that allows for a level of image stability and significantly reduced atmospheric interference without the often prohibitive cost and long development time-scale that are characteristic of space-borne…

The planned JEM-EUSO (Extreme Universe Space Observatory onboard the ISS Japanese Experimental Module) will measure the energy spectra of cosmic rays up to the range of 1000 EeV and will search for direction to their sources. It will…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Blahoslav Pastirčák , Pavol Bobík , Karel Kudela