17 December 2018
Innovative mission to view the surface of exoplanets using small sats
... a lens, where it will appear as a ring-like image. The swarm of small sats will be stationed at the focal point ready and waiting ... and CEO. “The technologies involved in the distributed swarm — longevity, agility, autonomy, and self-learning —...
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...
August 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 ...
12 August 2019
Communicating water-powered CubeSats tested in space by NASA
... available opportunity if unwanted clouds get in the way. But if you had a few CubeSats all operating together as a swarm, then many of the problems associated with data download can be overcome. For that to happen though, you...
