| PI of the experiment or contact person | L. Blomberg |
|---|---|
| Institute of the PI or of the contact person (country) | KTH (SWE) |
| E-mail of the PI or of the contact person | blomberg@plasma.kth.se |
| Type of experiment | 4 electric field probes mounted on the wire booms (3.3 m) in the spin plane and a tri-axial flux-gate magnetometer sensor mounted on the axial boom facing away from the Sun |
| References about the experiment | Astrid-2 : A Low-Budget Microsatellite Mission for Auroral Research (E6.1) |
| Link(s) to Web site(s) | http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/database/MasterCatalog?sc=1998-072B
http://www.ssc.se/ssd/msat/astrid2.html http://www.plasma.kth.se/~blomberg/astrid2.pdf http://www.plasma.kth.se/alp/space/astrid2/astrid2.html |
| Start experiment operation (dd-mm-yyyy) | 10-12-1998 |
| End experiment operation (dd-mm-yyyy) | 24-07-1999 |
| Lifetime of the experiment (month) | 9 |
| Highest data rate | 128 kbps |
| Preliminary results | (R6.1) |
| Measured data (k, w, Bo, E(t), B(t), polarisation, Vphase, ...) | High resolution E-field and B-field measurements |
| Data range | DC - 400 Hz E : ± 5 V.m-1 B : ± 65536 nT |
| Sensitivity | E : 0.2 mV.m-1 B : 0.125 nT |
| Time resolution | ????? |
| Sampling rate | 16, 256 or 2048 samples/s |
| Data formats and supports | Tapes, Online |
| Location of the data | Alfven Laboratory |
| References about the data | ***** |
| High-resolution data (support, place, contact) | Lars Blomberg KTH (SWE) blomberg@plasma.kth.se |