GOES 8 - Triaxial Fluxgate Magnetometer


PI of the experiment or contact person H. J. Singer
Institute of the PI or of the contact person (country) SEC-NOAA        (USA)
E-mail of the PI or of the contact person hsinger@sec.noaa.gov
Type of experiment 2 triaxial magnetometers located on a boom 3 m
and 2.7 m away from the spacecraft body
References about the experiment Design and performance of the GOES-8 high resolution magnetometer (E36.1)
Link(s) to Web site(s) http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/database/MasterCatalog?sc=1994-022A&ex=4
Start experiment operation (dd-mm-yyyy) 13-04-1994
End experiment operation (dd-mm-yyyy) *****
Lifetime of the experiment (month) *****
Highest data rate 2 kbps
Preliminary results Monitoring space weather with the GOES magnetometers (R36.1)
Measured data (k, w, Bo, E(t), B(t), polarisation, Vphase, ...) The magnitude and direction of the magnetic field
Data range DC - 0.5 Hz
± 1000 nT
Sensitivity 0.03 nT
Time resolution ?????
Sampling rate 2 samples per second
Data formats and supports Online
Location of the data CDAWeb
http://spidr.ngdc.noaa.gov/spidr/
http://sec.noaa.gov/Data/goes.html
References about the data http://www.sec.noaa.gov/
High-resolution data (support, place, contact) H. J. Singer     SEC-NOAA     hsinger@sec.noaa.gov