Illustration of a CubeSat constellation orbiting Earth. Credit: NASA
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Source: Earth and Space Science

Open-source MAGPRIME is a Python library with different interference removal algorithms that can be applied to magnetism in the heliosphere. Researchers and space engineers are invited to contribute to the library.

Two benchmarks are provided with a more traditional boom design to reduce interference signals and one boomless design with the magnetometers mounted on CubeSat bus. It is more challenging to remove the interference signal in the boomless configuration; however, flying boomless magnetometers on CubeSats would make the satellite more compact and cost-efficient. Hoffmann et al. [2024] examines an important point of the ability to reduce the interference signal to enable flying boomless magnetometers in the future.

Root_Mean_Squared Error (RMSE) of different magnetic interference removal algorithms applied to boomless magnetometer configurations, which have not been flown before. Credit: Hoffmann et al. [2024], Figure 10

Citation: Hoffmann, A. P., Moldwin, M. B., Imajo, S., Finley, M. G., & Sheinker, A. (2024). MAGPRIME: An open-source library for benchmarking and developing interference removal algorithms for spaceborne magnetometers. Earth and Space Science, 11, e2024EA003675. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024EA003675

—Astrid Maute, Editor, Earth and Space Science

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