GOES-S Sensor Receives Clean Bill of Health
The GOES-S Energetic Heavy Ion Sensor (EHIS) recently received a clean bill of health from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. The EHIS, part of the Space Environment In-Situ Suite instrument, was successfully tested using the hospital’s proton accelerator and deemed to be in good working order. EHIS will be responsible for measuring the heavy charged particles trapped in Earth’s magnetosphere and those that come from the sun or from cosmic rays. This information will be used to help scientists protect astronauts and high altitude aircraft from high levels of harmful ionizing radiation. Several GOES-R and GOES-S sensors have been tested using Mass Gen’s proton accelerator, which is typically used for cancer treatment.
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