Design of a Space Radiation Monitor for a Sounding Rocket and Results from the First Turkish Sounding Rocket Flight

A radiation monitor was designed to measure and correlate the radiation effects on sounding rockets. Two silicon PIN detectors with 4-quadrants and a Geiger counter with suitable readout electronics were qualified for space flight. Two of these radiation monitors were flown to an altitude of 136 km on top of the SR0.1 rockets launched by ROKETSAN™ on the 26
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and 29
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of October 2020 from Turkey. Count rates and corresponding dose rates were measured at the Regener-Pfotzer maximum as well as all through the flight path and monitored live in the control room through the telemetry downlink. An 11% difference in total dose was observed between the two flights.