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  • News - Operational News

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    Update on Swarm Field-Aligned Current Dual (FAC_AC) data missing from 7 November 2021

    As a follow-up of the news published on 23 November 2021, we want to update Swarm users about the missing Field-Aligned Current Dual (FAC_TMS_2F) data since 7 November 2021.

  • News - Operational News

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    Temporary interruption to Envisat AATSR dissemination service

    A planned downtime will affect the access to the ftp dissemination server for the Envisat AATSR data during the period 13-15 February 2024.

  • News - Success Stories

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    Swarm’s orbital dance: counter-rotating and closer, for the benefit of science

    Since variations in Earth’s magnetic field directly reflect the flow of fluid in the outermost core, new information from Swarm will further our understanding of the physics and dynamics of Earth's stormy heart—and the satellites are recently flying in a counter-rotating phase and closer in their separation, to enable scientists to discover new elements.

  • Tools - Other

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    Swarm-Aurora

    Swarm-Aurora, a web-based tool, was designed to facilitate and drive the use of Swarm in-situ measurements in auroral science.

  • News - Success Stories

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    Swarm unveils magnetic waves deep down

    Using information from ESA’s Swarm satellite mission, scientists have discovered a completely new type of magnetic wave that sweeps across the outermost part of Earth’s outer core every seven years.

  • Mission - Earth Explorers

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    Swarm Product Data Handbook

    The Swarm Product Data Handbook provides a detailed description of Level 1b and Level 2 products derived from Swarm data.

  • News - Success Stories

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    Swarm data help estimate the impact of space weather

    Energy from space weather mostly deposits itself as heat in the upper atmosphere, posing risks to satellites orbiting in the same altitude.

  • News - Operational News

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    Swarm Alpha and Charlie orbit raise campaign starting on 3 May 2022 - Potential impact on data quality

    After more than eight years of operations, the Swarm constellation is continuing to provide multi-point measurements of the Earth’s magnetic field and ionospheric parameters with unprecedented accuracy.

  • News - Infographics

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    Swarm - ESA's magnetic field satellite mission

    Learn more about ESA's Swarm mission, an Earth Explorer dedicated to studying Earth's magnetic field, in our latest infographic.

  • Mission - Earth Explorers

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    Swarm

    Swarm is dedicated to creating a highly detailed survey of Earth’s geomagnetic field and its temporal evolution as well as the electric field in the atmosphere using a constellation of three identical satellites.

  • News - General News

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    New Swarm Product Data Handbook available

    We are pleased to announce that a new Swarm Product Data Handbook page is now available.

  • News - Data Release news

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    New Swarm plasma density and plasma irregularity dataset released

    A new Swarm Level 2 data product was released on 20 February 2019. It contains several time series that characterise the plasma density and plasma irregularity along the Swarm orbits, separately calculated for each of the three satellites.

  • News - General News

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    New Release of VirES for Swarm 3.9.0

    Version 3.9.0 of VirES for SWARM has been released.

  • News - Data Release news

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    New GRACE and GRACE-FO thermosphere datasets released

    The Swarm DISC project Thermosphere Observations from Low-Earth Orbiting Satellites (TOLEOS) reprocessed all GRACE and GRACE-FO data to obtain new thermosphere density and crosswind datasets.

  • News - Spotlight on EO community

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    Meet ESA's Swarm Mission Manager

    Anja Strømme, ESA's Swarm Mission Manager, describes in detail the wonders of the Swarm mission.

  • News - Success Stories

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    Magnetic magic: 10 reasons to be excited about Swarm

    In November 2023, Swarm celebrated an impressive ten years in orbit. In that time, ESA’s magnetic mission has honed in on all sorts of mysteries - from tussling magnetic blobs to animal migration.

  • News - Success Stories

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    How Envisat helped to shape global understanding of Earth’s systems

    Twenty years have passed since a ground-breaking European spacecraft designed to deliver unprecedented insight into the planet’s changing environment was lofted into orbit.

  • Tools - Apps

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    Heritage Missions app for Android

    Download the Heritage Missions application to discover what the missions were about, how it worked and what the elements of the space and ground segment that make these missions unique.

  • Mission - Heritage Missions

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    GRACE

    GRACE stands for the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment and was a part of the international Earth Observing System (EOS) series of satellites.

  • Event - Workshop

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    Fringe 2003 Workshop

    The third ESA International Workshop on ERS SAR Interferometry and its first Workshop on ASAR interferometry: Advances in SAR interferometry from ERS and Envisat missions.