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 The Pamela Instrument is installed on the up-ward side of the Resurs-DK1 satellite and has been launched the 15th of June 2006 from the launch site of Bajkonour in Kazakhstan by a rocket Soyuz.
The satellite is travelling around the Earth along an elliptical orbit with an upward orientation, at an altitude ranging between 350 - 610 Km with an inclination of 70.0 °.
The experiment is expected to operate for at least three years.
The design goals for Pamela instrument performance are the measurements of the particle and nuclei fluxes in a wide energy range and precisely:
Particle | Energy Range | | Antiproton flux | 80 MeV - 190 GeV | | Positron flux | 50 MeV - 270 GeV | | Electron flux | up to 400 GeV | | Proton flux | up to 700 GeV | | Electron/positron flux | up to 2 TeV | | Light nuclei (up to Z=6) | up to 200 GeV/n | | Light isotopes (D, 3He) | up to 1 GeV/n | | Antinuclei search | (sensitivity better than 10-7 in antiHe/He) |
Additional objectives are:
Long-term monitoring of the solar modulation of cosmic rays;
Measurements of Energetic Particles from the Sun;
High-energy Particles in the Earth magnetosphere and Jovian electrons.
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PAMELA PROJECT 
