Secondary cosmic rays in the NUCLEON space experiment

Abstract The NUCLEON space observatory is a direct cosmic ray spectrometer designed to study cosmic ray nuclei with Z = 1 - 30 at energies 10 12 - 10 15 eV. It was launched as an additional payload onboard the Russian Resource-P No. 2 satellite in December of 2014. In this work B/C, N/O and subFe/Fe ratios are presented. The experiment has worked for half of its expected time, so the data have preliminary status, but they already give clear indications of several astrophysical phenomena, which are briefly discussed in this paper.