Automated static magnetic cleanliness screening for the TRACERS small-satellite mission

Cole Dorman; Chris Piker; David Miles

doi:10.5194/gi-13-43-2024

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Automated static magnetic cleanliness screening for the TRACERS small-satellite mission

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Automated static magnetic cleanliness screening for the TRACERS small-satellite mission

Cole Dorman, Chris Piker and David Miles

Geoscientific instrumentation, methods and data systems, Vol.13(1), pp.43-50

02/21/2024

DOI: 10.5194/gi-13-43-2024

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Abstract

The Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites (TRACERS) Small Explorers mission requires high-fidelity magnetic field measurements for its magnetic reconnection science objectives and for its technology demonstration payload Magnetometers for Innovation and Capability (MAGIC). TRACERS needs to minimize the local magnetic noise through a magnetic cleanliness program such that the stray fields from the spacecraft and its instruments do not distort the local geophysical magnetic field of interest. Here we present an automated magnetic screening apparatus and procedure to enable technicians to routinely and efficiently measure the magnetic dipole moments of potential flight parts to determine whether they are suitable for spaceflight. This procedure is simple, replicable, and accurate down to a dipole moment of 1.59 × 10-3 N m T-1. It will be used to screen parts for the MAGIC instrument and other subsystems of the TRACERS satellite mission to help ensure magnetically clean measurements on orbit.

Automation

Signal Processing

Cleanliness

Dipole moments

Electrodynamics

Fourier transforms

Magnetic dipoles

Magnetic field

Magnetic fields

Satellites

Screening

Sensors

Space flight

Space missions

Spacecraft

Subsystems

Technicians

Time series

Tracers

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Title: Subtitle: Automated static magnetic cleanliness screening for the TRACERS small-satellite mission
Creators: Cole Dorman - University of Iowa
Chris Piker
David Miles - University of Iowa, Physics and Astronomy
Resource Type: Journal article
Publication Details: Geoscientific instrumentation, methods and data systems, Vol.13(1), pp.43-50
DOI: 10.5194/gi-13-43-2024
ISSN: 2193-0856
eISSN: 2193-0864
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH
Grant note: DOI: 10.13039/100005740, name: Iowa Space Grant Consortium, award: 80NSSC20M0107; DOI: 10.13039/100006198, name: Goddard Space Flight Center, award: 80GSFC18C0008
Language: English
Date published: 02/21/2024
Academic Unit: Physics and Astronomy
Record Identifier: 9984560756702771

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