WIRED: The Search for the Next Big Idea in Magnetic Field Mapping

Rendering of Marshall's COSMO CubeSat.
Wired Magazine is exploring a national competition challenging scientists and engineers at the Â鶹ӰԺ and around the country to innovate on how we map Earth's constantly shifting magnetic field—and make navigation safer and more accurate.
A team led by Assistant Professor Bob Marshall in theÌýAnn and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences is a finalist in the MagQuest competition, which is being led by National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.