April 2018
Future Cubesat swarms pose significant communications challenges
... also innovative smart antenna designs by Zanette et al [7] that provide good solutions for CubeSats. Single versus swarm A swarm of CubeSats in LEO demonstrates advanced cross-link and downlink communications as a low-cost architecture and versatile...
31 October 2016
Swarm constellation helps figure out why satellites lose their GPS signal
...technical challenge being turned into exciting science, a true essence of an Earth Explorer mission such as Swarm,” added Rune Floberghagen, ESA’s Swarm mission manager. “These new findings demonstrate that GPS can be used as a tool for understanding...
May 2017
India confirms commercial launch intent
... Falcon 9 rocket. The role of this mission was to develop technology that can be sent deep into space in swarms, with each individual satellite beaming back its own stream of information. The Kicksat mothership reached its...
July 2016
Our changing world and the mounting risk of a calamitous solar storm
... belts, that are held in place by Earth’s magnetic poles, are increasingly at risk of being greatly diminished. ESA’s Swarm mission satellites are designed to measure Earth’s magnetosphere. These satellites confirm what we had begun to suspect - that...
October 2015
Copernicus, ESA’s most ambitious Earth Observation programme
... an advanced magnetometer, an accelerometer and an electric field instrument. The geomagnetic field models resulting from the Swarm mission enable new insights into the Earth’s interior. They further our understanding of atmospheric processes related...
February 2016
Defending Earth against cosmic hazards
...magnetic North and South poles are shifting. ESA’s Swarm satellites and NASA’s newly launched four-satellite Magnetospheric Multiscale...potentially hazardous asteroids According to Yvon Menard, ESA’s Swarm manager, one likely reason is that Earth’s ...
