A description of the precision triaxial fluxgate magnetometer to be flown aboard the MAGSAT spacecraft is presented. The instrument covers the range of + or - 64,000 nT with a resolution of + or - 0.5 nT, an intrinsic accuracy of + or - 0.001% of full scale and an angular alignment stability of the order of 2 seconds of arc. It was developed at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and represents the state-of-the-art in precision vector mangetometers developed for spaceflight use.
The MAGSAT Vector Magnetometer: A Precision Fluxgate Magnetometer for the Measurement of the Geomagnetic Field
1978
48 pages
Report
No indication
English
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