RAPID: Establishing International Collaboration for a CubeSat-Borne Magnetometer

这是一项短期(为期一年)的工作，目的是协调韩国庆熙大学(KHU)正在建造和发射的立方体卫星新型微型磁场仪器的测试、交付和集成。新汉普郡大学正在开发用于立方体卫星的新的科学磁强计，由美国宇航局资助，并将免费提供给该项目。这颗名为Sigma的立方体卫星(科学立方体卫星和全球磁场和辐射仪器)目前正由韩国政府出资开发，计划于2015年发射到近地轨道。西格玛任务的主要目的是立方体卫星技术演示。随着科学级磁力仪的增加，飞行任务将提供有关磁层中的波及其在地球辐射带的激发和衰变中的作用的有趣和重要的数据。此外，该项目将提供新磁强计的飞行鉴定和空间演示，使其成为美国和国际未来立方体卫星任务的宝贵资产。最后，这项努力将促进和扩大美国大学和韩国Khu大学之间在Cucuesat项目上的持续合作，并将建立一名早期职业科学家，发挥关键的协调作用。

This is a short-term (one-year) effort to coordinate the testing, delivery, and integration of a new miniature magnetic field instrument for a cubesat being built and launched by Kyung Hee University (KHU) in S. Korea. The new science magnetometer for cubesats is being developed at University of New Hampshire through a separate effort, funded by NASA, and will be contributed free of charge to this project. The cubesat named SIGMA (Scientific cubesat withInstruments for Global Magnetic field and rAdiation) is currently being developed by KHU with funding from the Korean government and is scheduled for launch into a low-Earth orbit in 2015. The main purpose of the SIGMA mission is cubesat technology demonstration. With the addition of a science grade magnetometer, the mission will provide interesting and important data pertaining to waves in the magnetosphere and their role in energization and decay of the Earth radiation belts. Furthermore, the project will provide in-flight qualification and in-space demonstration of the new magnetometer, making it a valuable asset for future cubesat missions both in the US and internationally. Finally, the effort will foster and expand an ongoing collaboration on cubesat projects between universities in the US and the KHU in South Korea and will establish an early career scientist in a key coordinating role.