Carr designs, builds and calibrates fluxgate magnetometers for planetary and heliophysics space missions (including ESA's JUICE and BepiColombo), covering everything from sensor electronics to in-flight calibration of magnetic-field instrumentation.

Dougherty was Principal Investigator for the Cassini magnetometer, which discovered evidence for a subsurface ocean at Enceladus, and now leads the magnetometer instrument for ESA's JUICE mission to the Jovian moons, combining spacecraft instrumentation with planetary magnetospheric science.