| Author(s) and Co-Author(s) with Affiliation: Vipin K Yadav(Space Physics Laboratory, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Thiruvananthapuram 6955022, India), Pankaj Agarwal(Composite Entity, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre , Thiruvananthapuram, 695013, India), Narendra S.(UR Rao Satellite Centre , Bengaluru, 560017, India), Vijay S. Rai(UR Rao Satellite Centre , Bengaluru, 560017, India), Vijaya Y.(Laboratory for Electro-Optical Systems, Bengaluru, 560058, India), Monika Mahajan(Laboratory for Electro-Optical Systems, Bengaluru, 560058, India), Mallikarjun K.V.L.N.(Laboratory for Electro-Optical Systems, Bengaluru, 560058, India), Srikar P. Tadepalli(UR Rao Satellite Centre , Bengaluru, 560017, India) |
| Abstract: The fluxgate magnetometers are regularly flown onboard space missions to measure local magnetic field in the vicinity of the spacecraft. However, these spacecrafts themselves generate magnetic field which contaminates the measurement of local ambient magnetic field in space. In order to reduce the magnetic noise arising from the spacecrafts, long booms are used to keep the magnetic field sensors as much away as possible from the spacecrafts carrying these magnetometers. Aditya-L1, the first Indian solar mission to study the Sun and placed in an orbit around the first Lagrangian (L1) point, has onboard a fluxgate magnetometer (MAG) to measure the local interplanetary magnetic field (IMF). The two sets of identical MAG sensors are placed on a 6 m long non-conducting deployable boom. In this paper, the details of this MAG boom are described which is working flawlessly in space. |
