The gLOWCOST collaboration has been developing cosmic ray detector for CubeSat launches. The readout electronics is the same as the ground detector. An initial design of the CubeSat prototype (mainly the mechanical structure) was resulted from a discussion with a research group at the NASA Ames Research Center, as shown below:

Since March of 2023, started during a trip to Sri Lanka for the very first international deployment, our team has been carrying this prototype detector in commercial flights and measuring cosmic ray radiation dose in flight altitude. The detector is put inside an ammo storage box for protection and easy carrying together with a smart phone charger for powering the detector. The photo below was taken at Santa Marta airport after a very successful gLOWCOST detector installation:

Dr. Viacheslav (Slava) Sadykov is taking a lead on analyzing the collected data and working on a paper draft for publication.

In April 2024, Dr. Ashwin Ashok took the unit in a balloon experiment. The details of the measurement are given below.