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Instrument details
Acronym RMS/MAG
Full name Radiation Measurement System - Magnetometer
Purpose To measure the magnetic field at platform level
Short description Vector magnetometer. Dynamic range: ±0.1 to ±180 nT. Resolution: ±0.02 nT @ maximum of the dynamics
Background Part of the Radiation Measurement System (RMS) complementary to instrument for solar radiation (RMS-solar) and for platform environment monitoring (RMS-platform)
Scanning Technique In-situ measurement in GEO
Resolution NIA
Coverage / Cycle Sampling at 0.1 s intervals
Mass Power Data Rate

 

Providing Agency Roscosmos
Instrument Maturity Flown on operational programme
Utilization Period: 1995 to 2000
Last update: 2016-03-21
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 GEO
Mission objectives
Primary mission objectives
  • Geomagnetic field
Evaluation of Measurements

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Note: * Primary mission objective.
VariableRelevance for measuring this variableOperational limitationsExplanation
Geomagnetic field*3 - highNo specific limitation.Platform, vectorial, narrow dynamics, high resolution