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NEWS
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.
News - Success Stories
CryoSat-2 Data Used to Measure Ionospheric Currents
Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-On (GRACE-FO) satellites can be used to diagnose weak low-/mid-latitude ionospheric currents
News - General News
New Swarm Field Aligned Current web tool available
We are pleased to announce that a new Field Aligned Currents (FAC) web tool is available
News - Operational News
Update on Swarm Field-Aligned Current Dual (FAC_AC) data issue
published on 23 November 2021 and on 16 December 2021, we want to update Swarm users about the issue affecting Field-Aligned Current
News - Operational News
Swarm Field-Aligned Current Dual (FAC_AC) data unavailable from 4 May 2022
the recent orbit raise manoeuvres which changed the orbital configuration of Swarm Alpha and Charlie, no Field-Aligned Current
News - Operational News
Possible artefacts in Swarm Field Aligned Current Dual s c FAC AC product
modify the orbits of Swarm-A and C, positioning them in an almost identical orbit during the counter rotating phase the current
News - Operational News
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
News - Success Stories
Ten years of Swarm data help reveal processes in Earth’s core
Title: Earth’s shielding magnetic field Description: The magnetic field and electric currents in and around Earth generate
News - General News
ESA's excellent Earth Explorer missions extended to 2025
Acting like the spinning conductor in a bicycle dynamo, it generates electrical currents and thus the continuously changing
News - Events and Proceedings
SMOS data advances space weather and ionospheric research
Title: Tracking the solar activity cycle using SMOS data Description: This graph shows the “rise” of our current solar activity
News - Success Stories
Swarm set for continued success after 10 years in orbit
Title: The force that protects the planet Description: The magnetic field and electric currents in and around Earth generate
News - Data Release news
New Swarm Langmuir probe Ion Drift, density and effective Mass (SLIDEM) dataset released
The measurements make use of Electric Field Instrument faceplate current measurements, and are thus available only when the
News - Operational News
Swarm Alpha and Charlie orbit raise campaign starting on 26 April 2023 - Potential impact on data quality
envisaged in multiple steps, with the first one starting on 26 April 2023 and lasting until 7 June 2023, according to the current
News - Operational News
Swarm Alpha and Charlie orbit raise campaign starting on 3 May 2022 - Potential impact on data quality
According to the current planning, this first orbit raise campaign will be completed on 8 July 2022.
News - Success Stories
Magnetic magic: 10 reasons to be excited about Swarm
Electric currents in the magnetosphere and ionosphere induce secondary currents in the ground, themselves producing magnetic
News - General News
Big ambitions as Swarm mission soars on
For example, whilst strong electric currents in the upper atmosphere were already known to vary by season, Swarm detected
News - Success Stories
Swarm data help estimate the impact of space weather
flux - defined as the energy transfer rate between the magnetosphere and the ionosphere-thermosphere, via field aligned currents
News - Thematic area articles
How ESA uses space data to explore deep Earth
Swarm maps core dynamics The swirling, conducting iron in Earth’s liquid outer core create powerful electric currents, which
News - Thematic area articles
Satellites expand research on Space Weather and Sun-Earth Interactions
This research – which is currently being completed – aims to explore how the process produces nitrogen oxide in the mesosphere