OGO 6 - Whistler and Low-Frequency Electric Field Study


PI of the experiment or contact person Thomas Laaspere
Institute of the PI or of the contact person (country) TSE-DC        (USA)
E-mail of the PI or of the contact person ?????
Type of experiment Two 60-ft electric dipole antennas
References about the experiment An Experiment to Study Electric and Electromagnetic Fiels
in the Frequency Range 10 Hz to 540 Hz on OGO-F (E75.2)
Link(s) to Web site(s) http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/database/MasterCatalog?sc=1969-051A&ex=25
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 Electric field variations during substorms : OGO-6 measurements (R75.2)
Measured data (k, w, Bo, E(t), B(t), polarisation, Vphase, ...) Electric fields components
Data range 0.02 - 1000 Hz
2 µV - 200 mV
Sensitivity ?????
Time resolution 0.3 s
Sampling rate ?????
Data formats and supports 16-mm Microfilm
Location of the data NSSDC
References about the data http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/database/MasterCatalog?sc=1969-051A&ex=25&ds=*
High-resolution data (support, place, contact) ?????