BARREL 2Q Data Processing Unit (HKPG) Analog Housekeeping Voltage, Temperature, Current, a

BARREL 2Q data provides housekeeping voltage, temperature, current, and payload status values recorded every 40 seconds from stratospheric balloons. The BARREL Mission was a NASA Living with a Star Mission of Opportunity, launching over 50 balloons from Antarctica and Sweden between 2013 and 2016 to study electron precipitation from Earth's Radiation Belts. This Level 2 data is processed and provided by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

Use Cases

• Monitoring instrument health and environmental conditions based on voltage, temperature, and current readings.
• Analyzing temporal variations in payload status to correlate with space weather events.
• Studying the spatial and temporal scale of relativistic electron precipitation by combining this housekeeping data with X-ray spectrometer measurements.
• Correlating balloon-based measurements with in-situ data from the Van Allen Probes mission.

Strengths

• Data is collected at a consistent 40-second sampling interval, providing a regular time series.
• Over 50 balloon flights were conducted across four campaigns from 2013 to 2016.
• Mission was designed to coordinate with the comprehensive Van Allen Probes in-situ measurements.

Limitations

• The description notes analog sensor data is based on a nominal layout and some payloads may have small differences not reflected here.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Collection Method

Collected by instruments on small stratospheric balloons launched from Antarctica and Sweden.

Time Range

Campaigns conducted in 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-13 12:55:27.831721; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Balloon launches from Halley Bay and SANAE IV base in Antarctica, and Esrange Space Center in Kiruna, Sweden.