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Find out about operational issues that may affect availability or quality of ESA EO data.
News - Operational News
8 Mar 2023Swarm Bravo: regenerated FAC L2 products from 10 to 16 January 2022
Following the regeneration of L1B magnetic data after the VFM anomaly registered on Swarm Bravo on January 2022, we inform all Swarm users that the Field Aligned Current (FAC) L2 products have been regenerated as well.
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28 Feb 2023Swarm Bravo VFM Anomaly from 24 February 2023 - Update
Due to an issue registered on the VFM (Vector Field Magnetometer) on board Swarm Bravo, several gaps have been identified in the VFM science data.
News - Operational News
22 Feb 2023Swarm Bravo: Regenerated Magnetic L1B data from 9 to 17 January 2022
An update to all Swarm users regarding the VFM anomaly registered on Swarm Bravo between 7 and 19 January 2022.
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16 Feb 2023MAGx_HR_1B products available again through the HTTP Dissemination service
The MAGx_HR_1B products are now available again, as normal, through the HTTP Swarm Dissemination service.
News - Operational News
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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14 Feb 2023Download of MAGx_HR_1B products via HTTP temporarily unavailable on Swarm Dissemination Server
MAGx_HR_1B products temporarily unavailable on Swarm Dissemination Server
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9 Feb 2023L1B and L2 Cat-2 data gap on Swarm Alpha on 5 and 6 February 2023
Due to an issue on-board Swarm Alpha, there is a gap in data received between 5 and 6 February 2023.
News - Operational News
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.
News - Operational News
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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13 Dec 2022Swarm Alpha - VFM data back to nominal from 6 December 2022
The Swarm Alpha VFM data is back to nominal as of 6 December 2022.
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5 Dec 2022Swarm L1B and L2-Cat2 data production recovered
As follow up of the news relevant to the L1B and L2-Cat2 SWARM data production unavailability, we inform users that the issue has been solved and the nominal production has been recovered without any gaps.
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1 Dec 2022Missing L1B and L2-Cat2 Swarm data production since 26 November 2022
Due to the unavailability of some external input files, the Swarm L1B and L2-Cat2 operational production is missing since 26 November 2022.
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28 Nov 2022Swarm Alpha gaps on VFM data starting from 20 November 2022
Swarm Alpha gaps on VFM data starting from 20 November 2022
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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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16 Aug 2022Swarm Bravo: Scalar magnetic field data unavailable on 6 and 7 August 2022
Due to an issue detected in the Swarm Level 1B 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 Bravo is set to zero on 6 and 7 August 2022.
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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.
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11 July 2022Swarm Alpha Gap in Plasma data on 6 July 2022
During an orbit raise manoeuvre performed on Swarm Alpha on the 6 July 2022, an issue was registered on the EFI instrument causing an instrument switch off from 02:35 to 08:34 UTC.
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4 July 2022Swarm Charlie VFM anomaly from 18 to 28 June 2022
Due to an anomaly registered on the VFM (Vector Field Magnetometer) on board of Swarm Charlie, the magnetic field vector B_VFM y-component stored in MAGC_HR_1B and MAGC_LR_1B products is affected by some artefacts from 18 to 28 June 2022.
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6 June 2022Update on Swarm Field-Aligned Current Dual (FAC_AC) data issue
As a follow-up of the news published on 23 November 2021 and on 16 December 2021, we want to update Swarm users about the issue affecting Field-Aligned Current Dual (FAC_TMS_2F) data.
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12 May 2022Swarm Field-Aligned Current Dual (FAC_AC) data unavailable from 4 May 2022
Due to the recent orbit raise manoeuvres which changed the orbital configuration of Swarm Alpha and Charlie, no Field-Aligned Current Dual (FAC_TMS_2F) data are being produced since 4 May 2022.