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Discover the latest news on the European Space Agency's Earth Observation activities. Learn all about new data availability and how ESA's missions are performing.
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News - General News
News - General News
Meet ESA's Swarm Mission Manager
In this detailed interview Anja Strømme, ESA's Swarm Mission Manager, describes in detail the wonders of the Swarm mission
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News - Data Release news
News - Data Release news
New Swarm Ion Temperature Estimation (SITE) data product released
A new dataset of Swarm Ion Temperature Estimation (SITE) is now available for the three Swarm spacecraft.
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News - General News
News - General News
New Swarm infographic
Learn more about ESA's Swarm mission, an Earth Explorer dedicated to studying Earth's magnetic field, in our latest infographic.
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News - General News
News - General News
Swarm DISC SITE project - Public presentation on 20 April 2021
The team behind the Swarm DISC project SITE (Swarm Ion Temperature Estimation) will be making their Final Presentation on 20 April 2021.
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News - Maintenance News
News - Maintenance News
Swarm Alpha: Scalar magnetic field data not available from 17 to 19 April 2020
Due to an issue detected in the Swarm L1B data processing chain, the magnetic field intensity derived from the ASM instrument and stored in MAGx_LR_1B and MAGx_CA_1B products for Swarm Alpha is set to zero from 17 to 19 April 2020.
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News - Operational News
News - Operational News
Swarm Charlie: VFM issue on 15 and 16 July 2019
An anomaly occurred on the Vector Field Magnetometer on board Swarm Charlie satellite between 14:09:06 15/07/2019 and 13:29:34 UTC on 16/07/2019
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News - Operational News
News - Operational News
New version of the Swarm Weekly Quality Report
Starting from the week 8-14 April, a new version of the Swarm Quality Report will be introduced.
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News - Operational News
News - Operational News
Swarm Alpha: L1B data gap from 10 to 12 June 2019
Due to a test performed on-board Swarm Alpha from 10 to 12 June 2019, the telemetry data retrieved from this spacecraft was not nominal.
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News - Operational News
News - Operational News
Swarm Charlie: EFI data gap from 2 to 4 June 2019
Due to an issue with the EFI on-board Swarm Charlie, no Langmuir Probe data is available for 2 to 4 June 2019.
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News - Events and Proceedings
News - Events and Proceedings
Eighth Swarm Data Quality Workshop report published in EOS
A summary of the 2018 Swarm Data Quality Workshop has been published in the Earth and Space Science (EOS) journal.
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News - Operational News
News - Operational News
Swarm Alpha: L1B ASM data gap from 13 to 20 May 2019
From 13 to 20 May 2019, the ASM (Absolute Scalar Magnetometer) instrument on board Swarm Alpha was commanded in burst mode.
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News - Operational News
News - Operational News
Swarm Alpha: EFI data gap on 12 May 2019
An EFI/TII gain calibration map has been executed on 12 May 2019 onboard Swarm Alpha.
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News - General News
News - General News
Significant improvements on Swarm Thermal Ion Imagers data
Constant improvement in the strategies to operate the TII sensors on-board each Swarm spacecraft allow increase in data coverage and quality.
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News - Operational News
News - Operational News
Swarm Alpha and Charlie: STR instruments set at 2 Hz rate from December 2018
The attitude information of the Swarm Star Tracker (STR) instruments are set at 2 Hz rate from December 2018, instead of the previous 1 Hz.
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News - General News
News - General News
Swarm helps pinpoint new magnetic north for smartphones
The magnetic north is constantly on the move – so much so the World Magnetic Model has had to be updated urgently with the pole's new location.
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News - General News
News - General News
Swarm trio becomes a quartet
ESA and Canada in deal to turn Swarm into a four-satellite mission to shed more light on space weather and features such as the aurora borealis.
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News - General News
News - General News
Swarm details energetic coupling
ESA's Swarm mission reveals the nature of the Earth–Sun coupling in more detail than ever before.