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STR (Swarm)

About STR

EFI

The Star Tracker (STR) on the Swarm satellites is comprised of three Camera Head Units (CHUs) mounted on the innermost end of the optical bench. It retrieves information on the precise satellite orientation and attitude in space. Nominally, the attitudes of all three heads are provided simultaneously at 2 Hz rate, however one head is regularly blinded by the Sun leaving the attitudes of just two heads. The attitudes of the 2-3 CHU are combined into one attitude, the attitude of the STR Common Reference Frame (CRF).

Data Tools

VirES
VirES for Swarm, the virtual research service, is a highly interactive data manipulation and retrieval interface for Swarm constellation mission products. It includes tools for studying various geomagnetic models by comparing them to the Swarm satellite measurements at given space weather and ionospheric conditions.
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VRE
The Swarm Virtual Research Environment (VRE) is a cloud service which provides a web-based interactive development environment based on JupyterLab.



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Aurora
Swarm-Aurora is a web-based platform that facilitates the identification of opportunities for auroral research utilising Swarm data.



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AMPS
The Average Magnetic field and Polar current System model (AMPS) is a climatological model of polar ionospheric currents, based on magnetic field measurements from the CHAMP and Swarm satellites.


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STR Quality Control Reports

Swarm Quality Control Reports are produced on a weekly basis and and cover the quality and the data acquired by the three Swarm satellites and the products produced from this data.

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