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SEISS Data Processing Unit Installed on GOES-R Satellite

Lockheed Martin engineers install the Space Environment In-Situ Suite (SEISS) Data Processing Unit (DPU) on the GOES-R spacecraft system module in a cleanroom at Lockheed Martin in Littleton, Colorado, on April 30, 2014. The DPU will process data from the four sensors that comprise the SEISS instrument that will fly on the GOES-R satellite. The instrument was built by Assurance Technology Corporation (ATC) in Carlisle, Massachusetts.

 

SEISS will monitor proton, electron, and heavy ion fluxes at geosynchronous orbit. The information provided by SEISS is critical for assessing the electrostatic discharge (ESD) risk and radiation hazard to astronauts and satellites. In addition to hazard assessment, the information from SEISS can be used to warn of high flux events, mitigating any damage to radio communication.

 

Credit: Lockheed Martin

 

SEISS instrument page: www.goes-r.gov/spacesegment/seiss.html

 

GOES-R space weather video: youtu.be/hPiy4x5z0GI

 

GOES-R satellite interactive 3-D model: www.goes-r.gov/3dmodel/index.html

 

Original image source: www.goes-r.gov/multimedia/instr-Seiss.html

  

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Taken on April 30, 2014