GOES 1 - Magnetic Field Monitor


PI of the experiment or contact person Harold Leinbach
Institute of the PI or of the contact person (country) SEC-NOAA        (USA)
E-mail of the PI or of the contact person ?????
Type of experiment A biaxial, closed-loop, fluxgate magnetometer was deployed on a boom
about 0.61 m long with one sensor aligned parallel to the spacecraft spin axis
and the other perpendicular to this axis.
References about the experiment (E30.1)
Link(s) to Web site(s) http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/database/MasterCatalog?sc=1975-100A&ex=4
Start experiment operation (dd-mm-yyyy) 01-1976
End experiment operation (dd-mm-yyyy) 07-1977
Lifetime of the experiment (month) 18
Highest data rate 100 bps
Preliminary results (R30.1)
Measured data (k, w, Bo, E(t), B(t), polarisation, Vphase, ...) The magnetic field at synchronous altitude
Data range ± 50, ± 100, ± 200 or ± 400 nT and ± 1200 nT in 40-nT steps
Sensitivity 0.2 nT
Time resolution 3 s
Sampling rate 1 sample/s
Data formats and supports Magnetic Tape
Location of the data NSSDC
References about the data http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/database/MasterCatalog?sc=1975-100A&ex=4&ds=*
High-resolution data (support, place, contact) H. J. Singer     SEC-NOAA     hsinger@sec.noaa.gov