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Completed TRL 6 (started at 3, targeting 6)
Traditional space-based magnetometers are deployed on a boom that extends from the spacecraft to reduce exposure of magnetic noise from the spacecraft that could potentially contaminate measurements. This project furthers the development and testing of a new magnetometer designed for CubeSats that does not need a boom. To allow placement of these economical, science-grade instrument magnetometers on and inside the satellite bus instead of on a boom, algorithms are developed that identify and eliminate spacecraft magnetic noise.
These low cost instruments fulfill the stringent requirements for low-amplitude and high-precision measurements while reducing the complexity of their integration on spacecraft by eliminating the need to be placed on a deployable boom. This enables highly-affordable high-quality magnetic field measurements to be made.
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