Curriculum 5 - Space sensing and instrumentation

The course provides skills to characterize and develop sensors and instrumentation for space applications : geophysical sensors, ionizing radiation sensors (charged particles, X-ray and gamma), optical sensors (infrared, visible, ultraviolet), SAR, radio sensors, nonimaging sensors (magnetic fields, electric fields, plasmas, gravitational field) and aims to train professionals who can understand and define the scientific-technical requirements that characterize a mission space mission and their impact in the design of the satellite payload.

The training includes consolidation of the main detection techniques, knowledge of the mechanisms that characterize the interaction between radiation - ionizing and nonionizing - and the matter as well as critical analysis of the major experimental apparatus made to date for the measurement of the properties of cosmic radiation, ionizing and non-ionizing, in space (such as direction, energy, frequency, arrival time, polarization, ...).

Through inclusion in research teams active in the different phases of space mission development (R&D, qualification, construction, integration, operation), the course enables the maturation in the field of a multiplicity of skills ranging from the more distinctly experimental, such as the design and testing of optical sensors and systems, electronics and data acquisition systems, to more operational, such as conducting verification and qualification campaigns of integrated equipment, and up to managerial ones, such as quality control and project management. The training course includes internships at instrument development and space qualification laboratories in the network of participating institutions and knowledge partners.

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