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...
11 February 2019
Earth's magnetic north pole is on the move and its going fast
... and the other points south. However, although prone to drifting on a regular basis, new updates from ESA’s swarm mission show that the magnetic north pole is shifting location more rapidly than before; just over three...
19 August 2020
Growing 'dent' in Earth's magnetic field poses problems for satellites
...surface, however last year, using data from their Swarm telescopes, ESA reported that the anomaly was causing...has split into two lobes, creating additional challenges for satellite missions. Earth’s magnetic field is often visualised as a powerful bar...
April 2018
Future Cubesat swarms pose significant communications challenges
..., which provides geographically dispersed measurements. CubeSat swarm mission concepts Intra-swarm refers to CubeSats that form a single swarm of small satellites in orbit Several swarm mission concepts have been proposed using nanosatellites. The...
July 2016
Our changing world and the mounting risk of a calamitous solar storm
... this as one of several ‘Black Swan’ events that could have devastating global impact. ESA’s three-satellite Swarm mission is helping to unravel aspects of Earth’s magnetic field. Two of the three identical satellites orbit almost side-by-side...
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...
