Quad-Mag board for CubeSat applications

Strabel, Brady P.; Regoli, Leonardo H.; Moldwin, Mark B.; Ojeda, Lauro V.; Shi, Yining; Thoma, Jacob D.; Narrett, Isaac S.; Bronner, Bret; Pellioni, Matthew

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gi-11-375-2022

Articles | Volume 11, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/gi-11-375-2022

© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/gi-11-375-2022

© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 11, issue 2

Research article

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16 Nov 2022

Research article |

| 16 Nov 2022

Quad-Mag board for CubeSat applications

Brady P. Strabel, Leonardo H. Regoli, Mark B. Moldwin, Lauro V. Ojeda, Yining Shi, Jacob D. Thoma, Isaac S. Narrett, Bret Bronner, and Matthew Pellioni

Data sets

Quad-Mag Characterization Data Brady P. Strabel https://doi.org/10.7302/kc6t-3670

Model code and software

bstrabel/quad_mag_data_analysis: quad_mag_data_analysis_v1.0.0 Brady P. Strabel https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6515198

Short summary

The design, characteristics, and performance of a CubeSat magnetometer board (Quad-Mag) equipped with four PNI RM3100 magnetometers is presented. The inclusion of four sensors allows a potential factor of 2 reduction in the noise floor established for an individual sensor via oversampling with multiple sensors. The Quad-Mag is shown to enable 1 nT magnetic field measurements at 1 Hz and 5.345 nT at 65 Hz using commercial off-the-shelf sensors for space applications.