PROJECT TITLE: Cluster Flux Gate Magnetometer Daily Calibration TUNED

Coordinator: Institute of Space Science – INFLPR

Partners: – 

Period: 19 November 2012 – 18 November 2015

Project director: Phd. Dragos Constantinescu

Project team: 3 PhD – Mircea Ciobanu, Horia Comisel, Dragos Constantinescu and 2 young scientists – Costel Bunescu, Vlad Constantinescu

Description: The task of the project is to perform the daily in-light calibration for the Flux Gate Magnetometer (FGM) instruments onboard the four ESA Cluster satellites. The project takes advantage of the calibrated data to investigate non-stationary processes at the Earth’s bowshock Cluster Spacecraft

Project objectives: 

• Develop a software package for automatic calibration
• Perform the FGM daily calibration
• Investigate the electron dynamics at high Mach number

Activities: 

• Software development month 1 – 12
• FGM daily calibration month 1 – 30
• Bowshock investigation month 1 – 36
• Management and reporting month 1 – 36

Contributions to the STAR programme objectives:

• Increases the visibility of the participants in the scientic community
• Builds the expertise for future participation in hardware projects
• Strengthens the connection of the ISS with prestigious institutions
• Enhances the Romanian contribution to ESA
• Contributes to the identication of a research niche
• Helps the development of the national space research capacity
• Promotes the development of a highly qualied research team
• Enables high quality scientic results at international level

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