Time-varying spacecraft magnetic fields, i.e. stray fields, are a problem for magnetometer systems. While constant fields can be removed by calibration, stray fields are difficult to distinguish from ambient field variations. Putting two magnetometers on a long boom and solving for both the ambient and stray fields can help, but this gradiometer solution is more sensitive to noise than a single magnetometer. As shown here for the R-series Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES-R), unless the stray fields are larger than the noise, simply averaging the two magnetometer readings gives a more accurate solution. If averaging is used, it may be worthwhile to estimate and remove stray fields explicitly. Models and estimation algorithms to do so are provided for solar array, arcjet and reaction wheel fields.


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    Title :

    Correcting GOES-R Magnetometer Data for Stray Fields



    Conference:

    ESA Workshop on Aerospace EMC ; 2016 ; Valencia, Spain


    Publication date :

    2016-05-25


    Type of media :

    Miscellaneous


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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