Subsatellite Systems of Remote Sounding of the Earth

摘要

The stratospheric balloon magnetic gradiometer system is developed and maintained at IZMIRAN already about 20 years. This system consists of three instrumental containers uniformly placed along a vertical 6 km line. System allows measuring parameters of the geomagnetic field along the whole flight trajectory. The GPS-receivers, located in each instrumental container, fix the flight coordinates. The developed launching technology, deployment in flight, assembly, data, transfer and processing, landing the containers with the equipment can be used for other similar problems of monitoring and sounding an environment. Useful flight weights of each instrumental container may be reaching 50 kg.