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Quad-Mag board for CubeSat applications
Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Leonardo H. Regoli
Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University, Laurel, MD, USA
Mark B. Moldwin
Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Lauro V. Ojeda
Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Yining Shi
Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Jacob D. Thoma
Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
Isaac S. Narrett
Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
Bret Bronner
Made In Space Incorporated, Moffett Field, CA, USA
Matthew Pellioni
Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
General Dynamics Land Systems, Sterling Heights, MI, USA
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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.
The design, characteristics, and performance of a CubeSat magnetometer board (Quad-Mag) equipped...