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    vector helium and fluxgate magnetometers. Magnetometers were also a component instrument on the Mercury MESSENGER mission. A magnetometer can also be used...
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    stable, marine fluxgate compasses always incorporate either fluid or electronic damping. An alternative is to use a 3-axis fluxgate magnetometer to provide...
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    Spacecraft magnetometers basically fall into three categories: fluxgate, search-coil and ionized gas magnetometers. The most accurate magnetometer complexes...
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    378 MHz beacon transmitter failure terminated the experiment. A fluxgate magnetometer was used to measure the component of the magnetic field parallel...
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    a three-axis fluxgate magnetometer for determining the strength and direction of magnetic fields, and an ion-vapor/vector magnetometer for determining...
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    a VHF and a UHF radar, a fluxgate magnetometer, a digisonde (an ionospheric sounding device), and an induction magnetometer, are used to study the physical...
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    Magnetometer (MAG) is an instrument suite on the Juno orbiter for planet Jupiter. The MAG instrument includes both the Fluxgate Magnetometer (FGM) and...
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    instrumentation was also similar to Luna 1, which included a triaxial fluxgate magnetometer, a piezoelectric detector, a scintillation counter, ion traps and...
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    original on 18 July 2009. Retrieved 29 October 2009. "MAG – TRIAXIAL FLUXGATE MAGNETOMETER". Archived from the original on 18 July 2009. Retrieved 29 October...
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    rubidium vapor magnetometer was used to calibrate the fluxgate magnetometers but did not produce an independently useful data set. The magnetometers functioned...
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    instruments, including a fluxgate magnetometer (FGM), an electrostatic analyzer (ESA), a solid state telescope (SST), a search-coil magnetometer (SCM) and an electric...
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    fluxgate magnetometers and one rubidium vapor magnetometer extending from the main spacecraft body, and a Faraday cup plasma probe. The magnetometers...
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    instrumented with the following instruments: A plasma wave receivers; A fluxgate magnetometer; A low-energy proton-electron differential energy analyzer. This...
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    uniaxial fluxgate magnetometers had a dynamic range of plus or minus 40 nT and a sensitivity of plus or minus 0.25 nT. One fluxgate magnetometer failed...
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    triaxial fluxgate magnetometer, three ring-core sensors in an orthogonal triad were enclosed in a flipper mechanism at the end of the magnetometer boom....
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    range. The magnetometer boom will measure the low-intensity interplanetary magnetic field in space using two high-accuracy fluxgate magnetometer sensors...
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    California (PDS/PRN website) Data: PDS/PRN data catalog Triaxial Fluxgate Magnetometer (active) (MAG) Designed to investigate the magnetic fields of Jupiter...
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    about 3 km (1.9 mi) at the lunar surface. The MAG was a triaxial fluxgate magnetometer similar in design to the instrument used on Mars Global Surveyor...
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    lines. 1940 Fluxgate magnetometer A fluxgate magnetometer measures the direction and magnitude of magnetic fields. Fluxgate magnetometer sensors are manufactured...
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    triaxial fluxgate magnetometer, three ring-core sensors in an orthogonal triad were enclosed in a flipper mechanism at the end of the magnetometer boom....
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    No useful data were obtained. This experiment used a triaxial fluxgate magnetometer. Each sensor had dual ranges of minus to plus 32 nT and 128 nT and...
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    error—as a command to turn on the electrical heaters of the spacecraft's magnetometer. These heaters remained turned on until December 4, 2006, and during...
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    cell damage experiment. The Ames magnetometer experiment consisted of a boom-mounted triaxial fluxgate magnetometer and an electronics package. The sensors...
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    particle detectors to study both electrons and protons, and a two-axis fluxgate magnetometers to determine magnetic aspect. A 16-channel PFM/PM time-division...
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    distribution function of the major ion species, (3) the Tri-Axial Fluxgate and Search-coil Magnetometers for measuring magnetic field data, and (4) the Electric...
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    Pioneer 11 has one additional instrument more than Pioneer 10, a flux-gate magnetometer. The Pioneer 11 probe was launched on April 6, 1973, at 02:11:00 UTC...
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    employed to detect submarines during World War II harnessed the fluxgate magnetometer, an inexpensive and easy to use technology developed in the 1930s...
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    1959. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com. Darling 2003, p. 244. "Triaxial Fluxgate Magnetometer". NASA NSSDCA. 28 October 2022. Retrieved 2 January 2024. Harvey...
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    magnetic fields in geostationary orbit. The GOES-16 Magnetometer (MAG) is a tri-axial fluxgate magnetometer that measures the Earth's magnetic field at the...
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    operation on 1 December 1981. This investigation used a triaxial fluxgate magnetometer (MAG-A), similar to one on board DE-2, to obtain vector magnetic...
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