Tag: Magnetometers
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Trending Magnetometers in 2024
Magnetometers are essential instruments in satellite systems, specifically designed to measure the intensity and direction of magnetic fields. These advanced devices play a critical role in attitude control and determination systems, enabling satellites to orient themselves accurately in space. By detecting variations in Earth’s magnetic field, magnetometers provide valuable data to determine the satellite’s orientation…
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UK Space Agency Awards £1.8 Million to British Organizations to Boost Tech Innovations
New funding from the UK Space Agency is backing technologies to help satellites measure our changing shorelines, estimate levels of biomass, predict weather forecasting and manufacture medicines in space. The £1.8 million injection, divided across nine individual projects, rounds off the final phase of the Agency’s Enabling Technologies Programme (ETP), designed to give a boost…
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Eutelsat OneWeb Partners with Imperial College London for Space Weather Monitoring Research
Eutelsat OneWeb, part of Eutelsat Group, the world’s first GEO-LEO satellite operator, has collaborated with Imperial College London to explore harnessing the power of its LEO satellite constellation to enable global space weather monitoring to help protect satellite operations as well as power, communications, navigation and transport systems. The changing conditions in near-Earth space, known…
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Engineers at NASA Complete Installation of High-Gain Antenna on Europa Clipper
NASA’s Europa Clipper is designed to seek out conditions suitable for life on the ice-covered moon of Jupiter. On Aug. 14, the spacecraft received a piece of hardware central to that quest: the massive dish-shaped high-gain antenna. Stretching 10 feet (3 meters) across the spacecraft’s body, the high-gain antenna is the largest and most prominent…
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IAI Introduces New Flux-Gate Based Magnetometer for LEO Satellites
IAI a company whose technology expertise features systems and solutions from reconnaissance satellites and radars to all aspects of command, control, and communications, computing and cyber, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance systems has introduced a new magnetometer for satellite applications. The Tamam Magnetometer (P/N 2425) from IAI is a unit used in LEO satellites to provide…
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AAC Clyde Space Introduces a New Autonomous Attitude Determination and Control System for Small Satellites
AAC Clyde Space, a New Space company that specializes in small satellite technologies and services that enable businesses, governments, and educational organizations to access high-quality, timely data from space has introduced a new fully autonomous Attitude Determination and Control System for small satellites The iADCS200 from AAC Clyde Space is a fully autonomous integrated ADCS…