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The JEM-EUSO mission aims to explore the origin of the extreme energy cosmic rays (EECRs) through the observation of air-shower fluorescence light from space. The superwide-field telescope looks down from the International Space Station…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-02 Andreas Haungs , JEM-EUSO Collaboration

The Extreme Universe Space Observatory-Super Pressure Balloon (EUSO-SPB1) is a pathfinder of the JEM-EUSO program, which aims to observe Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECRs) from near-space. It was launched from Wanaka (New Zealand) on…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2019-09-24 Silvia Monte , Carlo Vigorito , Mario Bertaina , Silvia Ferrarese , Kenji Shinozaki , Susana Briz , JEM-EUSO Collaboration

The Probe Of Extreme Multi-Messenger Astrophysics (POEMMA) Balloon with Radio (PBR) is an instrument designed to be borne by a NASA suborbital Super Pressure Balloon (SPB), in a mission planned to last as long as 50 days. The PBR instrument…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-21 Francesco Saverio Cafagna

EUSO-TA is a pathfinder experiment for the space based JEM-EUSO mission for the detection of ultra-high energy cosmic rays. EUSO-TA is an high-resolution fluorescence telescope installed in front of the Black Rock Mesa fluorescence…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-26 Francesca Bisconti

FIREBall-2 is a stratospheric balloon-borne 1-m telescope coupled to a UV multi-object slit spectrograph designed to map the faint UV emission surrounding z~0.7 galaxies and quasars through their Lyman-alpha line emission. This…

Mini-EUSO (Multiwavelength Imaging New Instrument for the Extreme Universe Space Observatory) is a telescope observing the Earth in the ultraviolet band (290-430 nm) from the Russian Zvezda module of the International Space Station since…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-05 Giulia Romoli

EUSO-TA is a ground-based experiment, placed at Black Rock Mesa of the Telescope Array site as a part of the JEM-EUSO (Joint Experiment Missions for the Extreme Universe Space Observatory) program. The UV fluorescence imaging telescope with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-21 Z. Plebaniak , M. Przybylak , D. Barghini , M. Bertaina , F. Bisconti , M. Casolino , D. Gardiol , R. Lipiec , L. W. Piotrowski , K. Shinozaki , J. Szabelski

Mini--EUSO (Multiwavelength Imaging New Instrument for the Extreme Universe Space Observatory, known as \emph{UV atmosphere} in the Russian Space Program) is the first mission of the JEM-EUSO program on board the International Space…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-18 Mario Bertaina , Matteo Battisti , JEM-EUSO collaboration

The JEM-EUSO program aims at detecting Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECRs) by observing the fluorescence light produced by extensive air showers (EAS) in the Earth's atmosphere. Within this program, a new generation of missions is being…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-13 M. Battisti , M. Bertaina , F. Fenu , H. Miyamoto , K. Shinozaki , A. Belov , F. Bisconti , M. Mignone , F. Capel

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…

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

Mini-EUSO is a telescope observing the Earth in the ultraviolet band from the International Space Station. It is a part of the JEM-EUSO program, paving the way to future larger missions, such as KEUSO and POEMMA, devoted primarily to the…

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

In 2016-2017, TUS, the world's first experiment for testing the possibility of registering ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) by their fluorescent radiation in the night atmosphere of Earth was carried out. Since 2019, the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-06 Mikhail Zotov , Denis Sokolinskii

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

We describe the design and implementation of the University of Chicago Infrared Camera 2 (UCIRC2) built for monitoring cloud coverage during the EUSO-SPB2 flight (the second generation of the Extreme Universe Space Observatory on a Super…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-09 Rebecca Diesing , Khadijat Durojaiye , Seamus Flannery , Kameron Mehling , Noah Friedlander , Alexa Bukowski , Emily Donovan , Stephan Meyer , Angela V. Olinto

EUSO-SPB1 was a balloon-borne pathfinder mission of the JEM-EUSO (Joint Experiment Missions for the Extreme Universe Space Observatory) program. A 12-day long flight started from New Zealand on April 25th, 2017 on-board the NASA's Super…

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

Mini-EUSO is a telescope launched on board the International Space Station in 2019 and currently located in the Russian section of the station. Main scientific objectives of the mission are the search for nuclearites and Strange Quark…

The POEMMA-Balloon with Radio (PBR) is a proposed payload to fly on a NASA Super Pressure Balloon (SPB). It will act as a pathfinder of the Probe Of Extreme Multi-Messenger Astrophysics (POEMMA) detector. PBR will consist of an innovative…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-28 Matteo Battisti , Johannes Eser , George Filippatos , Angela Olinto , Giuseppe Osteria , Etienne Parizot , JEM-EUSO Collaboration