ASTROMAG is a particle astrophysics facility that was originally configured for the Space Station. The heart of the ASTROMAG facility is a large superconducting magnet which is cooled using superfluid helium. The task of resizing the facility so that it will fly in a satellite in a high angle of inclination orbit is driven by the launch weight capability of the launch rocket and the desire to be able to do nearly the same physics as the Space Station version of ASTROMAG. In order to reduce the launch weight, the magnet and its cryogenic system had to be downsized, yet the integrated field generated by the magnet in the particle detectors has to match the Space Station version of the magnet. The use of aluminium matrix superconductor and oriented composite materials in the magnet insulation permits one to achieve this goal. The magnetic parameters of a free-flying version of ASTROMAG and the parameters of the space cryogenic system for the magnet are presented
The ASTROMAG superconducting magnet facility configured for a free-flying satellite
ASTROMAG - Eine supraleitende Magnetanlage, die für einen frei fliegenden Satelliten konzipiert wurde
1992
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Design of an opposing pair magnet system for ASTROMAG
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|NTRS | 1989
|Comparison of Space Station version of ASTROMAG with two free-flyer versions
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|Solar power satellite system configured by formation flying
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