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Compact Spherical Coil (CSC) Fluxgate Vector Magnetometer

ResourceID
spase://SMWG/Instrument/SAC-C/CSC

Description

The Compact Spherical Coil (CSC) Fluxgate Vector Magnetometer is the same as those flown on the Ørsted (launch Feb. 23, 1999) and CHAMP (July 15, 2000) missions. The autonomous instrument has a ± 65536 nT range with a resolution of 20 bits at 100 vector samples/s with a communication computer for telecommand/telemetry and control, and it includes Huffman encoding data compression.

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Instrument

ResourceID
spase://SMWG/Instrument/SAC-C/CSC
ResourceHeader
ResourceName
Compact Spherical Coil (CSC) Fluxgate Vector Magnetometer
AlternateName
CSC
ReleaseDate
2018-06-01 18:21:48Z
Description

The Compact Spherical Coil (CSC) Fluxgate Vector Magnetometer is the same as those flown on the Ørsted (launch Feb. 23, 1999) and CHAMP (July 15, 2000) missions. The autonomous instrument has a ± 65536 nT range with a resolution of 20 bits at 100 vector samples/s with a communication computer for telecommand/telemetry and control, and it includes Huffman encoding data compression.

Acknowledgement
Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (France); National Aeronautics and Space Administration (United States); Danish Space Research Institute (Denmark); National Commission of Space Activities (CONAE) (Argentina); Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, Brazil (Brazil); Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (Italy)
Contacts
RolePersonStartDateStopDateNote
1.PrincipalInvestigatorspase://SMWG/Person/UNKNOWN
InformationURL
Name
The SAC-C Project
URL
https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/s/sac-c
Description

Information about the SAC-C Compact Spherical Coil Fluxgate Vector Magnetometer.

Language
en
InstrumentType
Magnetometer
InvestigationName
Compact Spherical Coil (CSC) Fluxgate Vector Magnetometer on the SAC-C project
OperatingSpan
StartDate
2001-01-23 00:00:00Z
StopDate
2004-12-04 23:59:59Z
ObservatoryID
spase://SMWG/Observatory/SAC-C