Speaker
Marie Dominique
(ROB)
Description
PROBA2 is an ESA micro-sat that hosts two solar instruments: SWAP, an EUV telescope, and LYRA, a radiometer observing the Sun in four bandpasses spanning the XUV to MUV range. LYRA primary objectives are the monitoring of solar activity for space weather purposes and the analysis of solar flares, but it has also been used in other specific contexts such as the determination of O+N2 densities in the Earth atmosphere by exploiting the occultation measurements. In this talk, we will discuss how small satellites can be used to complement/pursue the main LYRA observations.
Primary author
Marie Dominique
(ROB)
Co-authors
Dr
Athanassios Katsiyannis
(Royal Observatory of Belgium)
David Berghmans
(Royal Observatory of Belgiunm)
Dr
Ed Thiemann
(LASP, University of Colorado)
Mr
Ingolf Dammasch
(Royal Observatory of Belgium)
Dr
Laurence Wauters
(ROB)
