OGO 2 - Magnetic Survey, Rubidium Vapor Magnetometer


PI of the experiment or contact person Joseph C. Cain
Institute of the PI or of the contact person (country) DG-FSU        (USA)
E-mail of the PI or of the contact person cain@geomag.gfdi.fsu.edu
Type of experiment 2 dual-cell optically pumped self-oscillating rubidium magnetometers
References about the experiment (E71.2)
Link(s) to Web site(s) http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/database/MasterCatalog?sc=1965-081A&ex=5
Start experiment operation (dd-mm-yyyy) 14-10-1965
End experiment operation (dd-mm-yyyy) 02-04-1966
Lifetime of the experiment (month) 6
Highest data rate 64 kbps
Preliminary results First magnetic field results from the OGO-2 satellite (R71.2)
Measured data (k, w, Bo, E(t), B(t), polarisation, Vphase, ...) Magnetic field measurements
Data range 15000 - 64000 nT
Sensitivity 2.5 nT
Time resolution 0.5 s
Sampling rate ?????
Data formats and supports Binary magnetic tapes and CD-Rom
Location of the data NSSDC and http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/cd-rom/web_store.cgi?
category=pogo&cart_id=766754#details
References about the data http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/database/MasterCatalog?sc=1965-081A&ex=5&ds=*
High-resolution data (support, place, contact) ?????