DAMPE space mission: first data

Understand

The DAMPE (DArk Matter Particle Explorer) satellite was launched on December 17, 2015 and started its data taking operation a few days later.

• DAMPE has a large geometric factor ($\sim~0.3\ m^2\ sr$) and provides good tracking, calorimetric and charge measurements for electrons, gammas rays and nuclei.
• This will allow precise measurement of cosmic ray spectra from tens of $GeV$ up to about $100\ TeV$.
• In particular, the energy region between $1-100\ TeV$ will be explored with higher precision compared to previous experiments.