RADCUBE is an ESA technology demonstration mission, focused on demonstrating the use of small satellites (CubeSat form factor) and minaturised systems for space weather monitoring.

Mission Summary

RADCUBE is an ESA technology demonstration mission performed under the auspices of the GSTP programme. It is led by C3S (Hungary), and is currently scheduled for launch in 2020 to a sun-synchronous low-Earth orbit.

Imperial College London is providing MAGIC (MAGnetometer from imperial College), a vector magnetometer built around magnetoresistive sensors, which will be used to measure the magnetic field and monitor magnetospheric space weather via the detection of field aligned currents and changes in the magnetic field. MAGIC is part of RadMag, an instrument suite led by MTA-EK (Hungary) which also consists of energetic particle detectors. MAGIC will be mounted on a boom provided by Astronika (Poland).