Oersted

Centre National D'études Spatiales , Danish National Space Center
November, 1999 to December, 2015

Ørsted is a geomagnetic research microsatellite mission of Denmark [named in honor of the Danish scientist Hans Christian Ørsted (1777-1851) who discovered electromagnetism in 1820]. The Ørsted mission was developed by a consortium of organizations including the NBI (Niels Bohr Institute) of the University of Copenhagen, the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), the Solar-Terrestrial Physics Division of DMI (Danish Meteorological Institute), the Danish Space Research Institute (DSRI) of Copenhagen, Terma A/S, and Computer Resources International (now part of Terma A/S). International contributions were provided by NASA, CNES, DLR and ESA.

directory.eoportal.org

http://web.dmi.dk/projects/oersted/

Instrument	Datasets
OM	0
CSC fluxgate vector magnetometer	0
GPS Radio Occultation System	0
Star Imager	0

Also known as :

• missionID 480 (ceos lexicon)
• Mission Oersted (ceos lexicon)
• Mission Ørsted (Oersted) (ceos lexicon)
• resource Ørsted_%28satellite%29 (dbpedia lexicon)