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BARREL Balloon Data Processing Units

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spase://SMWG/Instrument/BARREL/DataProcessingUnit

Description

This document describes the full set of BARREL Balloon Data Processing Units, DPUs, and allows for search aggregation of DPU information from all balloons.

The BARREL DPUs acquire data from the X-ray spectrometer, magnetometer, a GPS module, and an Engineering Data Interface, EDI. It outputs formatted data frames to an Iridium modem for downlink, and controls the command-cutdown system. The DPU is a general purpose instrument controller board, which communicates with other boards through a backplane and a memory-type interface. Flexibility is achieved through the use of an Field-Programmable Gate Array, FPGA, that contains interface logic for the backplane signals. The instrument controller board has flown successfully on three sounding rocket experiments, and about 26 balloon flights, most recently in the 2010 BARREL test flights.

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Version:2.4.0

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ResourceID
spase://SMWG/Instrument/BARREL/DataProcessingUnit
ResourceHeader
ResourceName
BARREL Balloon Data Processing Units
ReleaseDate
2022-04-12 12:34:56.789
RevisionHistory
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ReleaseDate
2022-04-12 12:34:56.789
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BARREL Data Processing Units: Initial SPASE 2.4.0 XML resource description submission, metadata submitted by LFB
Description

This document describes the full set of BARREL Balloon Data Processing Units, DPUs, and allows for search aggregation of DPU information from all balloons.

The BARREL DPUs acquire data from the X-ray spectrometer, magnetometer, a GPS module, and an Engineering Data Interface, EDI. It outputs formatted data frames to an Iridium modem for downlink, and controls the command-cutdown system. The DPU is a general purpose instrument controller board, which communicates with other boards through a backplane and a memory-type interface. Flexibility is achieved through the use of an Field-Programmable Gate Array, FPGA, that contains interface logic for the backplane signals. The instrument controller board has flown successfully on three sounding rocket experiments, and about 26 balloon flights, most recently in the 2010 BARREL test flights.

Contacts
RolePersonStartDateStopDateNote
1.PrincipalInvestigatorspase://SMWG/Person/Robyn.Millan
2.MetadataContactspase://SMWG/Person/Lee.Frost.Bargatze
InformationURL
Name
BARREL Home Page
URL
Description

Main home page with links to the BARREL mission overview, data, publications, and news/events, hosted by Dartmouth College

InformationURL
Name
BARREL Science Team Information
URL
Description

Site listing BARREL science team information, hosted by Dartmouth College

InformationURL
Name
BARREL Mission Overview Poster
URL
Description

BARREL mission overview summary poster, hosted by Dartmouth College

InformationURL
Name
BARREL Introduction: Balloon Test Flight Results and Mission Plans and Objectives, JASTP Publication
URL
Description

Millan, R.M., McCarthy, M.P., Sample, J.G. et al., Understanding Relativistic Electron Losses with BARREL, J. Atmos. and Sol.-Terr. Phys., 73(11-12), 1425-1434, (2011), DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jastp.2011.01.006

InformationURL
Name
BARREL Campaign Plans, Science Objectives, Instrument Descriptions, Payload Design, and Support Systems, SSR Publication
URL
Description

Millan, R.M., McCarthy, M.P., Sample, J.G. et al., The Balloon Array for RBSP Relativistic Electron Losses (BARREL), Space Sci. Rev., 179, 503–530 (2013). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11214-013-9971-z

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Platform
InvestigationName
Balloon Array for RBSP Relativistic Electron Losses (BARREL)
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