OGRE program

[lajoswinkler]

While Kron 6 mission is underway, Wernher von Kerman came to an excellent idea to get some actual data on the van Kallen belts that surround Kerbin and possibly, probe the other belts of other planetary bodies. It's something that was supposed to be done a lot earlier, but nobody thought about it. Except maybe for Linus Kerman, but nobody listens to him, anyway.

 

Thus, OGRE program was born. OGRE stands for Orbital Global Radiation Evaluation.

The probes will be equipped with a Geiger-Müller counter and will be carried into orbit by a two stage rocket (SRB and liquid bipropellant engine). Optionally, third stage will be either liquid bipropellant, or xenon when more distant bodies become the next target.

 

Aditionally, currently travelling Kron 6 will determine those properties at Plock system, and flung out Kaos 3 will measure the radiation doses at and beyond the magnetosphere after quite a few years.

 

The probe is being built at the moment.

[Wallygator]

Hmmm, based on your acrynom I envisaged a large armored land crawler. 

Oversized Grandious Rover Experiment

(Not to be confused with the late 1970's board game)

Regardless, press forward! Eager to see your approach, design and execution.  

[lajoswinkler]

Engineer Julma Kerman next to the OGRE 1 satellite.

 

The launch was a complete success, putting this small satellite into a primary equatorial orbit of high eccentricity to allow the passage through all of the belts and after that, it was put into a parking orbit in the middle of the worst Kerbin's ionizing belt at 500 km.

 

 

Data will be published very soon, as well as primary findings from both Geiger-Müller counter and the banana pod.

 

Meanwhile, OGRE 2 is being assembled for the purpose of measuring Eve's belt conditions.

Edited September 6, 2016 by lajoswinkler

[lajoswinkler]

OGRE 1 report

 

a) inner belt: - initial LKO dose rate of 0.01 rad/h starts climbing at around 360.5 km and reaches 10.01 rad/h at around 400 km

                     - dose rate starts to fall at around 697 km and falls back to 0.01 rad/h at around 722.5 km

b) outer belt: - initial dose rate of 0.01 rad/h starts to rise at around 1269 km and reaches maximum of 2.01 rad/h at around 1280 km

                     - dose rate starts to fall at around 1576.5 km and falls back to 0.01 rad/h at 1590.5 km

c) magnetosphere: - at the side facing the sun, initial dose rate of 0.01 rad/h starts to rise to interplanetary dose rate of 0.02 rad/h at around 1805 km

(all measurements done in equatorial orbit and rounded to 0.5 km)

 

@ShotgunNinja I'll dump all this data in this thread.

 

Meanwhile, OGRE 2 is heading to Eve.

Edited September 14, 2016 by lajoswinkler

[lajoswinkler]

OGRE 2 is in orbit of Eve.

 

OGRE 2 report:

Eve has magnetopause only, which probably corresponds to its atmosphere being ablated by Kerbol's wind. Its edge appears around 60.5 km on the side facing Kerbol, and extends far into space on the other side.

Other than that, there are no ordered magnetic fields, not even local ones.

Upon entering this zone, interplanetary radiation dose of 0.02 rad/h quickly falls down to 0.015 rad/h.

Edited September 14, 2016 by lajoswinkler

[lajoswinkler]

OGRE 3 is in orbit of Moho.

 

OGRE 3 report

Moho has a simple, yet intriguing zones of ionizing radiation. Its magnetosphere is shaped like an irregular droplet. At the sunlit side, interplanetary dose of 0.02 rad/h starts dropping at around 425 km and reaches 0.013 rad/h at around 397 km.

Inside, very close to the surface, an inner radiation belt exists; a small irregular torus some 30 km wide by my account. It starts roughly at 70 km and ends at roughly 41.5 km. OGRE 3 has detected the maximum dose of 0.732 rad/h inside of it.

[Wallygator]

I find this fascinating. Looking forward to a graphic representation of the data once sampling is complete.

ksp needs (err you/we need) a mod that continually (and automatically in the background) samples such data and outputs it to a .csv

EDIT:  HA!  Sorry I failed to notice your sketches - very nice indeed!!!

Edited September 15, 2016 by Wallygator