Magson GmbH - Project Overview

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Project Overview

Rosetta Lander
In January 2003 the ESA will send Rosetta on a mission to Comet/P Wirtanen. Rosetta will orbit around the Comet, inspecting it thoroughly and dropping a Lander onto the Comet's nucleus.

Equator S
The German Satellite Equator S, developed by the MPE Garching, was launched in 1997 in an elliptical orbit with an apogee of 10 Re.

The Rosetta Lander

RV Polarstern
The accuracy of magnetic field measurements onboard an research vessel was investigated by the AWI Bremerhaven in 2000.

MIR Magnetometer
The first digital fluxgate magnetometer in space was installed 1998 in cooperation with the IWF Graz and the IKI Moscow onboard the MIR space station.