Technique - (4) Spacecraft fluxgate magnetometer instrumentation

Type: Experimental

Description: Design, calibration and operation of fluxgate/search-coil magnetometers flown on planetary and heliophysics spacecraft.

Department(s)/lab(s): Physics | Bale Group (Space Sciences Laboratory) @ UCB
Summary:

Bale directs Space Sciences Laboratory and leads the FIELDS instrument suite on NASA's Parker Solar Probe, which combines search-coil and fluxgate magnetometers with electric-field antennas to make in-situ, high-cadence measurements of the electromagnetic fields threading the solar wind and corona. His group also contributes field instrumentation to Solar Orbiter and other heliophysics missions, pushing the sensitivity and bandwidth of spacecraft field sensors used to study particle acceleration and turbulence.

Department(s)/lab(s): Physics | Space and Atmospheric Physics Group @ Imperial
Summary:

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.

Department(s)/lab(s): Physics | Space and Atmospheric Physics Group @ Imperial
Summary:

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.

Department(s)/lab(s): Physics | Space and Atmospheric Physics Group @ Imperial
Summary:

Horbury is Principal Investigator for the magnetometer instrument on ESA's Solar Orbiter mission, studying solar-wind turbulence and the Sun's magnetic connection to the heliosphere through in-situ spacecraft instrumentation.