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News - Operational News
News - Operational 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 - Scientific Highlights
News - Scientific Highlights
Gravity Field Models from Swarm data
In addition to its geomagnetic objectives, GPS receivers onboard Swarm can and have already been exploited to measure temporal variations in Earth's global gravity field.
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News - Operational News
News - Operational News
New Swarm E (CASSIOPE) precise orbits and attitude data released
Precise orbits and attitude quaternions for the year 2019 for the CASSIOPE/e-POP satellite are now available on the Swarm dissemination server.
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News - General News, Operational News
News - General News, Operational News
Swarm Alpha: Magnetic field data regenerated from 14 to 17 February 2020
An issue was registered during the processing of the Swarm L1B magnetic field data during 14 to 17 February 2020, which is when the ASM on-board this spacecraft was commanded in Burst mode.
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News - General News, Operational News
News - General News, Operational News
Swarm L1B and L2 operational processors updated
On 11 February an improved version for both L1B and L2 (FAC, IBI, and TEC) Operational Processors was transferred into operation.
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News - General News, Operational News
News - General News, Operational News
New EFI TII Cross-Track Flow dataset available for Swarm Alpha and Bravo
An improved version of the TII cross-track dataset (TIICT version 0201) is now available.
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News - General News, Operational News
News - General News, Operational News
Updated Swarm EEF data now available
We would like to inform Swarm data users that an improved version of EEF Level-2 product (version 0202) is now available.
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News - General News
News - General News
Swarm E CASSIOPE precise orbits and attitude data released
Precise orbits for the year 2018 and attitude quaternions for the period from January 2014 to January 2019 were produced for the CASSIOPE/e-POP, which was incorporated as the fourth element of the Swarm constellation (Swarm-Echo) in 2018. These data sets are now available on the Swarm dissemination server.
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News - General News, Operational News
News - General News, Operational News
Swarm Bravo L1B ASM data gap from 27 October to 4 November 2019
Between the 27 October to 4 November, the ASM (Absolute Scalar Magnetometer) instrument on board Swarm Bravo was commanded in burst mode.
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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 - General News, Scientific Highlights
News - General News, Scientific Highlights
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 - Operational News, Scientific Highlights
News - Operational News, Scientific Highlights
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 - Scientific Highlights
News - Scientific Highlights
ESA's unexpected fleet of space weather monitors
Researchers utilised data from Swarm and GOCE missions, and LISA Pathfinder to investigate if it could be used for space weather diagnostics.