Electromagnetic sensors for microsatellites

Author

Korepanov, Valery

Author_Institution

Lviv Centre of Inst. of Space Res., Nat. Acad. of Sci., Lviv, Ukraine

Volume

2

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

1718

Abstract

The recent state of the electromagnetic (EM) sensors for microsatellites development is reported. The set of EM sensors produced at Lviv Centre of Institute of Space Research (LCISR) includes the following devices: flux-gate magnetometers (FGM); search-coil magnetometers (SCM); electric probes (EP); and wave probe (WP). The WP is another kind of instrument which combines in one sensor three independent sensors: SCM, EP and split Langmuir probe. Such a combination allowed one to create a principally new instrument. The developed theory confirms that WP can directly measure wave vector components in space plasma. All these types of space sensors are described and their parameters are presented.

Keywords

Langmuir probes; aerospace instrumentation; artificial satellites; fluxgate magnetometers; magnetometers; EM sensors; EP; LCISR; Lviv Centre of Institute of Space Research; SCM; electric probes; electromagnetic sensors; flux-gate magnetometers; microsatellites; search-coil magnetometers; space sensors; split Langmuir probe; wave probe; wave vector components; Energy consumption; Frequency; Instruments; Magnetic noise; Magnetic sensors; Magnetometers; Materials science and technology; Noise level; Probes; Space technology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Sensors, 2002. Proceedings of IEEE

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7454-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSENS.2002.1037383

Filename

1037383