Conveners
Magnetometers and Atomic Oxygen Detectors: MGAO
- Piers Jiggens (ESA/ESTEC)
An Ion and Neutral Mass Spectrometer (INMS), designed for sampling of low mass ionised and neutral particles in the spacecraft ram direction, was developed for the EU QB50 CubeSat constellation mission. 9 INMS instrument were launched on their respective educational CubeSats and to date, data has been returned for a one month period from the one working QB50 CubeSat. Two further sensors are...
LISA Pathfinder (LPF) was the European Space Agency (ESA) technology demonstrator of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). The LPF spacecraft (S/C) was orbiting at about 1.5 x 10^6 km away from the Earth around the first Sun-Earth Lagrangian libration point (L1). Using fluxgate platform magnetometer measurements, it was possible to resolve the magnetic field generated on board...
In the frame of the ESA SSA program a four-sensor Service Oriented Spacecraft Magnetometer (SOSMAG) was launched with GEO-KOMPSAT-2A into a geostationary orbit on December 4th 2018. The instrument is designed for magnetic field measurements onboard of satellites which are developed without magnetic cleanliness requirements. The multi sensor arrangement is used for eliminating spacecraft...
