University of Iowa physicists have won funding from NASA to design, build, and test a compact instrument that can measure a wider spectrum of magnetic fields in space.

The researchers in the Department of Physics and Astronomy—David Miles, assistant professor, and George Hospodarsky, associate research scientist—will design and build a magnetic field detector, called a magnetometer, that can operate on a new generation of satellites that are as small as a loaf of bread.

The NASA funding for the project, called CHIMERA, is $1,030,000 for three years.