Increasing the technological maturity of a low-noise magnetic measurement subsystem with IOD/IOV CubeSat Platforms

  1. Mateos, I.
  2. María-Moreno, C.
  3. Pacheco-Ramos, G.
  4. Quirós-Olozábal, A.
  5. Guerrero-Rodríguez, J. M.
  6. Cifredo-Chacón, M. A.
  7. Del Sol, I.
  8. Rivas, F.
  9. Vílchez-Membrilla, J. A.
  10. Cobos-Sánchez, C.
Actas:
Highlights of Spanish Astrophysics XI, Proceedings of the XV Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Astronomical Society held

Año de publicación: 2023

Páginas: 342

Tipo: Aportación congreso

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Resumen

With the purpose of advancing the technological maturity of novel magnetic sensing techniques, in-orbit platform opportunities (IOD/IOV experiments) offer the possibility to assess their in-flight capabilities. Magnetic Experiments for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (MELISA) are a series of in-flight demonstrators that intend to characterize the low-frequency noise behavior of a magnetic measurement system under the harsh space environment. One of these undergoing experiments developed by the University of Cádiz is MELISA-III, an improved payload based on magnetoresistive sensors embarked on the first CubeSat mission of the Horizon 2020 IOD/IOV program with the support of the European Space Agency (ESA). After the successful environmental test campaign on the Qualification Model and the acceptance-level testing, the MELISA-III Flight Model was delivered to the prime contractor in February 2022 for its integration into a 6U CubeSat. A review of the main performances of the payload, the test campaigns, and the planned scientific operations at LEO will be described in this paper.