Session
Poster Session 1
Location
Salt Palace Convention Center, Salt Lake City, UT
Abstract
➢ Many CubeSats in Earth orbit utilize magnetorquers for attitude control. Simultaneously, AC magnetometry has gained prominence in advancing our understanding of Earth's magnetosphere, including fine-scales in field-aligned currents (FACs).
➢ We propose a novel dual-function subsystem, TorqMag (short for Torquing Magnetometer) integrating a magnetorquer and a search coil sensor to enable both attitude control and high-fidelity AC magnetometry in a single compact package of < 1U.
➢ TorqMag offers significant mass, power, and volume savings for science missions and aims at high-sensitivity detection of magnetic waves (100 Hz–2 kHz) without the need for a deployable boom, while still maintaining sufficient torque authority.
➢ This poster presents the challenges in developing this instrument, as well as the strategies and successes in addressing them. This work is supported by NASA’s H-TIDeS program as part of the HyMag-ADCS project at the University of Michigan.
Document Type
Event
TorqMag: Developing a Novel Integration of Magnetic Attitude Control and AC Magnetometry for Small Satellite Platforms
Salt Palace Convention Center, Salt Lake City, UT
➢ Many CubeSats in Earth orbit utilize magnetorquers for attitude control. Simultaneously, AC magnetometry has gained prominence in advancing our understanding of Earth's magnetosphere, including fine-scales in field-aligned currents (FACs).
➢ We propose a novel dual-function subsystem, TorqMag (short for Torquing Magnetometer) integrating a magnetorquer and a search coil sensor to enable both attitude control and high-fidelity AC magnetometry in a single compact package of < 1U.
➢ TorqMag offers significant mass, power, and volume savings for science missions and aims at high-sensitivity detection of magnetic waves (100 Hz–2 kHz) without the need for a deployable boom, while still maintaining sufficient torque authority.
➢ This poster presents the challenges in developing this instrument, as well as the strategies and successes in addressing them. This work is supported by NASA’s H-TIDeS program as part of the HyMag-ADCS project at the University of Michigan.
