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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 scientic 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 identication of a research niche
- Helps the development of the national space research capacity
- Promotes the development of a highly qualied research team
- Enables high quality scientic results at international level
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