Lunar magnetic field measurements with a cubesat

We have developed a mission concept that uses 3-unit cubesats to perform new measurements of lunar magnetic fields, less than 100 meters above the Moon’s surface. The mission calls for sending the cubesats on impact trajectories to strongly magnetic regions on the surface, and transmitting measureme...

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Main Authors: Garrick-Bethell, Ian, Lin, Robert P., Sanchez, Hugo, Jaroux, Belgacem A., Bester, Manfred, Brown, Patrick, Cosgrove, Daniel, Dougherty, Michele K., Halekas, Jasper S., Hemingway, Doug, Lozano, Paulo C., Martel, Francois, Whitlock, Caleb Wade
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: SPIE 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/81473
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6063-3227