OGO 6 - Triaxial Search-Coil Magnetometer


PI of the experiment or contact person Edward J. Smith
Institute of the PI or of the contact person (country) JPL        (USA)
E-mail of the PI or of the contact person edward.j.smith@jpl.nasa.gov
Type of experiment A triaxial search coils mounted at the end of a 6.1-m boom
References about the experiment OGO search coil magnetometer experiments (E75.1)
Link(s) to Web site(s) http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/database/MasterCatalog?sc=1969-051A&ex=22
Start experiment operation (dd-mm-yyyy) 10-06-1969
End experiment operation (dd-mm-yyyy) 29-08-1970
Lifetime of the experiment (month) 13
Highest data rate 64 kbps
Preliminary results A Comparaison of Electric and Magnetic Field Data from
the Ogo 6 Spacecraft (R75.1)
Measured data (k, w, Bo, E(t), B(t), polarisation, Vphase, ...) Magnetic fields components
Data range 0.01 - 1000 Hz
Sensitivity ±0.25 nT and ±3 nT
Time resolution 0.288 s
Sampling rate 7 samples/s
Data formats and supports 16-mm Microfilm and CD-Rom
Location of the data NSSDC and Online (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=1969-051A&ex=22&ds=*
High-resolution data (support, place, contact) Joseph D. Means     IGPP-UCLA     jmeans@igpp.ucla.edu