NSSDCA ID: 1966-058A-01
Mission Name: Explorer 33The instrumentation for this experiment consisted of a boom-mounted triaxial fluxgate magnetometer. Each of the three sensors had a range of minus to plus 64 nT and a digitization resolution of minus to plus 0.25 nT. Zero-level drift was checked by periodic reorientation of the sensors. Spacecraft fields at the sensors were not greater than the digitization uncertainty. One vector measurement was obtained each 5.12 s. The bandpass of the magnetometer was 0 to 5 Hz, with a 20-dB per decade decrease for higher frequencies. The detector functioned well between launch and October 10, 1968, when the dc power converter failed. No useful data were obtained after that date. For further details, see Behannon, J. Geophys. Res., v. 73, p. 907, 1968. NSSDC has all the useful data that now exist from this investigation. Hourly averaged interplanetary data also exist as part of data sets in the NSSDC supplementary data file.
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Name | Role | Original Affiliation | |
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Dr. Kenneth W. Behannon | Other Investigator | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center | |
Dr. Norman F. Ness | Principal Investigator | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center |