Introduction Since their discovery in 1912, Cosmic Rays (CR) have been crucial to the study of new physics. Begining with the pioneering studies of Prof. Nishina, leading – among other things – to the discovery of the muon, several new…
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EUSO-TA is a ground based detector located in front of the Telescope Array (TA) Fluorescence detector in Black Rock Mesa, Utah, USA [ref.1]. It was installed in 2013 in its own building and has been upgraded in the following years….
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EUSO-Balloon is a balloon-borne experiment performed in collaboration with the French Space Agency CNES. It was equipped with one full original JEM-EUSO PDM (photon detection module with 2304 pixels) and with an optical system made of two Fresnel lenses, with…
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EUSO-SPB (EUSO Super Pressure Balloon) is an experiment on board a super pressure balloon for a long duration flight. EUSO-SPB was launched at 22:50 UTC on April 24th, 2017, from the NASA balloon launch site in Wanaka (New Zealand) and…
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The Extreme Universe Space Observatory on a Super Pressure Balloon II Mission (EUSO-SPB2) is a precursor for a next generation space observatory for multi-messenger astrophysics. The EUSO-SPB2 instrument will measure PeV and EeV-scale cosmic rays, optical backgrounds that could mimic…
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The Mini-EUSO (Multiwavelength Imaging New Instrument for the Extreme Universe Space Observatory), telescope is designed to perform observations of the UV light emission from Earth. It has been located in front of the UV transparent window in the Zvezda Russian module…
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TUS (Tracking Ultraviolet Setup) is a satellite mission for the study of UHECR. It has been placed in orbit on April 28, 2016 on board the Lomonosov satellite by the Soyuz 2.1 rocket from the Russian Vostochny Cosmodrome, at an…
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K-EUSO will be the first detector to measure UHECR from space, allowing a measurment of the UHECR spectrum and anisotropy over the full celestial sphere. Since its first conception as KLYPVE, the project has evolved into K-EUSO, and the use…
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