Fig. 1.
SDC during thermal testing (left), and the schematic drawing of the experiment (right). Two additional sensor patches (not shown) are attached to the backside of the detector assembly to monitor noise events. SDC ~0.1 m2 of sensitive area. It was designed to measure the mass of IDPs in the range of 10−12 to 10−9 g. Impacts of bigger dust particles are registered the without the ability to determine their mass. The instrument weighs 1.6 kg and consumes 5.1 watts of average power.