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

Mission Summary

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

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, a compact instrument suite led by EK (Hungary) which also consists of energetic particle detectors. MAGIC will be deployed by means of a tape spring motorized boom provided by Astronika (Poland). 

The mission is currently in Phase D, with MAGIC EQM model just delivered to Hungary for integration test with the RadMag instrument suite.