BackInstrument:  MAGIC 

Instrument details
Acronym MAGIC
Full name MAGnetometers for Innovation and Capability
Purpose MAGIC is a technology demonstrator for developing a new generation of magnetometers
Short description

New generation of Fluxgate Magnetometer.
Background

New instrument development as history of old instruments has been lost.
Scanning Technique
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Providing Agency NASA
Instrument Maturity Flown on an R&D satellite
Utilization Period: 2025 to 2026
Last update: 2025-07-28
Detailed characteristics
Satellites this instrument is flying on

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Instrument classification
  • Solar and space environment monitors
  • Field or radiowave sensor
WIGOS Subcomponents
  • Subcomponent 1
  • In-situ plasma probes, and energetic particle spectrometers and magnetometers at GEO and LEO, and magnetic field at GEO
  • Magnetometer at LEO
Mission objectives
Primary mission objectives
  • Geomagnetic field
Evaluation of Measurements

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Note: * Primary mission objective.