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MMS Magnetospheric Multiscale

MMS is NASA 4-spacecraft mission to study the near-Earth space and the magnetic reconnection process there

MMS spacecraft and electric field sensor

Illustration: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center. Photo: Håkan Lindgren

NASA Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission was launched 2015 March 12 to study Earth magnetosphere with a focus on the magnetic reconnection process. MSM has instruments to measure space plasma - electric and magnetic fields, as well as electrons and ions. We have participated in building the electric field instrument, including the electronics, electric field sensor and design of the wire boom deployment unit.

Team

Per-Arne Lindqvist
Per-Arne Lindqvist senior researcher
Tage Göran Marklund
Tage Göran Marklund professor emeritus
Mykola Ivchenko
Mykola Ivchenko professor
Tomas Karlsson
Tomas Karlsson professor

Links

Magnetospheric Multiscale  (NASA)
MMS Data Center

Instrument papers

P.-A. Lindqvist et al., The Spin-Plane Double Probe Electric Field Instrument for MMS, Space Sci Rev 199, 137 (2016). doi: 10.1007/s11214-014-0116-9