
This five-year project will involve the design, building, and testing MAGIC, a next-generation University of Iowa built spaceflight fluxgate magnetometer. We will establish flight-heritage through a do-no-harm Technical Demonstration as a hosted-payload on the UI-led TRACERS SMEX mission that complements the existing UCLA magnetometer (enabling spacecraft field mitigation). MAGIC is built from scratch at the University of Iowa by Prof. Miles, the principal investigator of the project. MAGIC delivers world-class magnetic measurements without relying on the legacy ring-cores used by most other providers and can be scaled and tuned for other applications. The two technical objectives of the project are:
- Technical Demonstration on TRACERS Establishing Flight-Heritage Objective
- New National Capability to Provide Spaceflight Magnetometers