GOES 5 - Biaxial Fluxgate Magnetometer


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 The spinning twin-fluxgate magnetometer, located at a few meters
away from the spacecraft (one axis was parallel to the spin axis
that was held nearly in the direction of Earth's axis, one other axis
was directed toward Earth center, and the last axis pointed eastward).
References about the experiment (E33.1)
Link(s) to Web site(s) http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/database/MasterCatalog?sc=1981-049A&ex=4
Start experiment operation (dd-mm-yyyy) 22-05-1981
End experiment operation (dd-mm-yyyy) 01-02-1987
Lifetime of the experiment (month) 70
Highest data rate ?????
Preliminary results (R33.1)
Measured data (k, w, Bo, E(t), B(t), polarisation, Vphase, ...) The orthogonal components of the magnetic field
Data range ± 400 nT
Sensitivity 0.2 nT
Time resolution ?????
Sampling rate ?????
Data formats and supports Magnetic Tape and Online
Location of the data NSSDC
http://sd-www.jhuapl.edu/AMPTE/goes/http://sevem.aeronomie.be/index.htm
http://spidr.ngdc.noaa.gov/spidr/
References about the data http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/database/MasterCatalog?sc=1981-049A&ex=4&ds=*
High-resolution data (support, place, contact) H. J. Singer     SEC-NOAA     hsinger@sec.noaa.gov