Geoscientific Instrumentation, Methods and Data Systems
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Articles | Volume 12, issue 1
Articles | Volume 12, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/gi-12-1-2023
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https://doi.org/10.5194/gi-12-1-2023
© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 12, issue 1
Research article
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05 Jan 2023
Research article |  | 05 Jan 2023

Laboratory measurements of the performances of the Sweeping Langmuir Probe instrument aboard the PICASSO CubeSat

Sylvain Ranvier and Jean-Pierre Lebreton

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The Sweeping Langmuir Probe on board the PICASSO CubeSat was designed to measure plasma parameters. Before launch, the instrument was tested in a plasma chamber. It is shown that the traditional method to interpret the data cannot be applied directly for this type of probe, and an adaptation is proposed. It is reported how, with a reduced number of data points, the plasma parameters can still be retrieved. Finally, the effects of the contamination of the probe surface are discussed.
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