Abstract The Fast Plasma Investigation (FPI) was developed for flight on the Magnetospheric
Multiscale (MMS) mission to measure the differential directional flux of magnetospheric …

Abstract Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS), a NASA four-spacecraft constellation mission
launched on March 12, 2015, will investigate magnetic reconnection in the boundary …

Magnetic reconnection in current sheets is a magnetic-to-particle energy conversion process
that is fundamental to many space and laboratory plasma systems. In the standard model of …

INTRODUCTION Magnetic reconnection is a physical process occurring in plasmas in which
magnetic energy is explosively converted into heat and kinetic energy. The effects of …

The Spin-plane double probe instrument (SDP) is part of the FIELDS instrument suite of the
Magnetospheric Multiscale mission (MMS). Together with the Axial double probe instrument …

Abstract The Axial Double Probe (ADP) instrument measures the DC to∼ 100 kHz electric
field along the spin axis of the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) spacecraft (Burch et al …

The tri-axial search-coil magnetometer (SCM) belongs to the FIELDS instrumentation suite
on the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission (Torbert et al. in Space Sci. Rev.(2014) …

Magnetic reconnection is known to be an important process for coupling solar wind mass
and momentum into the Earth's magnetosphere. Reconnection is initiated in an electron …

Aerospace technologies are crucial for modern civilization; space-based infrastructure
underpins weather forecasting, communications, terrestrial navigation and logistics …

Abstract The Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission and operations are designed to
provide the maximum reconnection science. The mission phases are chosen to investigate …