TheFluxgate Magnetometer fortheAMPTEUK Subsatellite

United Kingdom ground station forabout12h/orbit. The magnetometer canoperate inaspacecraft engineering mode, andthedata received inreal time(R/T) attheChilton, United Kingdom, control center canbeusedtomakedecisions concerning theinitiation ofscience activities andmodesetting for other spacecraft instruments (electron, ion, particle correlator, andwaveexperiments). Magnetometer datainnearly allinstances provide thesimplest instantaneous guide tospacecraft position andambient conditions inthehighly variable terrestrial plasma environment. TheUKSmagnetometer data will beusednearperigee where thefield direction isknownforconflrmation ofspacecraft attitude.