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Operational News
Find out about operational issues that may affect availability or quality of ESA EO data.
News - Operational News
18 Apr 2024Swarm Bravo on-board anomaly on 10 April 2024
Due to an issue on-board Swarm Bravo, the vector magnetic field data from the VFM instrument are not available from 10 April 2024 at 12:54 to 11 April 2024 at 10:27 (UTC time).
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20 Mar 2024Improved data latency for FAST data generation over Northern Europe
We are pleased to announce that thanks to the effort of the Swarm Flight Operations Team and DISC partners, a down-link optimisation strategy to reduce the latency of Swarm FAST data acquired over Northern Europe was implemented on 11 March 2024.
News - Operational News
19 Jan 2024Update in Swarm Orbit Counter product
Starting from 17 January 2024, a modification has been introduced in the processing of Swarm Orbit Counter product AUXxORBCNT, which extends the file coverage to 2 days ahead.
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9 Jan 2024Gaps in Swarm-C data on 07 and 08 January 2024
On 07 January 2024 an anomaly occurred on Swarm Charlie STR instrument triggering an Attitude and Orbit Control Subsystem fallback to Coarse Pointing Mode, with a consequent switch-off of all the on-board instruments.
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18 Dec 2023Swarm EFI Gain Map calibration and partial data gap between 13 and 15 December 2023
An update of the Swarm EFI-TII Gain Correction Map was executed on the three Swarm spacecraft between 13 and 15 December 2023 causing several gaps in EFI-LP data.
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2 Oct 2023Swarm Bravo: Scalar magnetic field data unavailable on 27 September 2023
Swarm Bravo scalar magnetic field data is unavailable for 27 September due to an issue in the data processing chain.
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30 Aug 2023Restored nominal L1B attitude and magnetic data quality and patched MAG-L dataset available on dissharm
Following-up on the recent communications about degraded attitude and magnetic data on Swarm L1B dataset starting from October and December 2018 and from 24 June 2023, the nominal quality of Level 1B data has been restored since 25 August 2023.
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28 Aug 2023Issue with B_NEC magnetic L1B data on all three Swarm spacecraft
An issue has been detected in the L1B data processing chain since the production of 24 June 2023, when a processing library update was performed.
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23 Aug 2023Degradation of Swarm L1B attitude data on all three spacecraft
A degradation of attitude data for all Swarm satellites has been identified in the L1B data generated during STR operations at 2 Hz sampling rate, i.e. since 17 October, 12 and 18 December 2018 for Bravo, Alpha and Charlie respectively.
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22 June 2023Swarm Alpha VFM anomaly from 16 to 20 June 2023
Due to an issue registered on the VFM on board Swarm Alpha, several gaps have been identified in the VFM science data from 16 June to 20 June.
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20 June 2023Swarm Bravo GPS anomaly on 16 June 2023
A loss of GPS Time Synchronisation registered on Swarm Bravo on 13 June 2023 has affected all of the Swarm Bravo instruments.
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14 June 2023Swarm Bravo Data Gap on 4 June 2023
All of the L1A and L1B data production for 4 June 2023 has been processed and disseminated in two parts.
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12 June 2023Swarm Field-Aligned Current Dual (FAC_AC) data production resumed from 1 June 2023
Following the announcement of Swarm Alpha and Charlie orbit raise campaign and its potential impact on data availability, we inform the users that the nominal production of Swarm Field-Aligned Current Dual (FAC_TMS_2F) data has been resumed since 1 June 2023 and the products are available again on Swarm Dissemination Server.
News - Operational News
9 June 2023Swarm Bravo on-board anomaly on 4 June 2023
Due to an issue on-board Swarm Bravo, the science data of 4 June 2023 was not received from 13:15 to 13:42 UTC. The production of Swarm Bravo L1B and L2 Cat-2 data has been affected during this time window and cannot be recovered.
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26 Apr 2023Swarm Alpha and Charlie orbit raise campaign starting on 26 April 2023 - Potential impact on data quality
The evolution of Solar Cycle #25 and its effects on the orbit of Swarm has started to increase, considering how active the Sun has been between the end of 2022 and beginning of 2023.
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16 Feb 2023Swarm Alpha on-board anomaly on 12 February 2023
Due to an issue registered on-board of Swarm Alpha, all the payload instruments were switched off on 12 February 2023 at 03:43.
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3 Jan 2023Swarm Charlie VFM anomaly on 27 – 28 December 2022
Due to an anomaly registered on the VFM (Vector Field Magnetometer) on board Swarm Charlie spacecraft, the VFM science data was not received from 27 December at 19:26 UTC to 28 December 2022 at 11:07 UTC.
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3 Jan 2023Swarm Bravo VFM data gaps on 29 – 30 December 2022
Due to an anomaly registered on the VFM instrument on-board Swarm Bravo spacecraft, several data gaps are present in the magnetic field vector components derived from this instrument from 29 December 2022 09:59 UTC to 30 December 2022 at 07:17 UTC.
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28 Sept 2022Swarm Level 1B and Level 2 operational processors updated
On 28 September 2022 an improved version for both L1B and L2 Operational Processors was transferred into operation.
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15 July 2022Swarm Field-Aligned Current Dual (FAC_AC) data production resumed from 1 July 2022
The Swarm Field-Aligned Current Dual (FAC_TMS_2F) products are now available again via the dissemination server.