High energy electron is a kind of sources to be detected in the geospace environ- ment. Generally, the particle telescope with much thick semiconductor detector is used as the sensor for energetic electrons because they can penetrate deeply into the detector. The more energy of the electrons is, the deeper they can penetrate into, so that the geometric factor varies with energy of the incident electrons. We discuss the geometric factor of particle radiation detector (PRD), which is a payload on ZY-1 (CBERS-1 and CBERS-2) satellites to monitor the high energy particle ra- diation inside the satellites. According to the NASA’s AE8 model, the geometric factors of electrons for the low energy bin (0.5―1.0 MeV) and the high energy bin (> 2.0 MeV) are 2.468 and 1.736 cm2·sr, respectively. These results are much differ- ent from the traditional calculation of the geometric factor that is 1.18 cm2·sr. The angle-response function of the telescope is also derived, which can be useful for design of the telescope and analysis of the directional distribution.
