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Advances in Astronomy
Volume 2013 (2013), Article ID 461717, 20 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/461717
Review Article
Cosmic Ray Investigation in the Stratosphere and Space: Results from Instruments on Russian Satellites and Balloons
1Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, 119991 Moscow, Russia
2Institute of Experimental Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Watsonova 47, 04001 Kosice, Slovakia
Received 31 August 2012; Accepted 26 November 2012
Academic Editor: Badruddin
Copyright © 2013 Yu. I. Logachev et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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