Author: Steve Christe

Magnetometers provide essential magnetic field measurements for solar-terrestrial and space physics research, for space exploration, and for monitoring space weather. Science missions have often needed a search coil magnetometer for high frequencies and a fluxgate magnetometer for the static field and low frequencies. Although one or both instruments have flown on a large percentage of …

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Miniaturizing our measurement devices has become more important over the years as our missions needed an increasing number of spacecraft to enable systems science. Launching many spacecrafts at once, affordably means smaller spacecraft and less room for our instruments.   Mahmooda Sultana, a Heliophysics Instrument Development for Science (H-TIDeS) principal investigator, has taken a novel approach …

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