Building the Detectors For CHARM

It takes a lot of different people to put together instruments for a sounding rocket. Here are a few of the people from the University of Iowa who helped get the bagel and top hat style electron detectors ready for the CHARM sounding rocket:

Our undergraduate student, Kristin Wood, helped with the technical drawings and the top hat deployer arms.

 

Mike Fountain from our machine shop made the parts for the detectors.

Graduate student Mike Larson put a special black coating made from copper on the top hats.

 

Our assembly technician, Sharon Kutcher, soldered all of the electronics.

Published Feb 26 2007, 10:10 AM by Kris Sigsbee

Filed under: The CHARM Sounding Rocket

About Kris Sigsbee

Dr. Kris Sigsbee currently works as an Assistant Research Scientist in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Iowa. She received her M.S. in physics from the University of Minnesota for her study of lunar impact craters. She received her Ph.D. in space physics from the University of Minnesota in 2000. Her research interests include the solar wind, the aurora borealis, geomagnetic storms, and the Van Allen radiation belts. Dr. Sigsbee has also helped test instruments for the CHARM sounding rocket. You can read more about Dr. Sigsbee in her Solar Week biography.

"No, I'm from Iowa. I only work in outer space." - Captain James T. Kirk