SWING (satellite)

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SWING
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Mission type Space weather
Operator European Space Agency logo.svg European Space Agency
Spacecraft properties
Bus HP-IOT
Manufacturer Flag of France.svg Hemeria
Start of mission
Launch date2027 (planned)
Orbital parameters
Reference system Geocentric
Regime Sun-synchronous
AltitudeBetween 500 and 600 km
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SWING (Space Weather Ionosphere Nanosat Generation) is a future space weather mission for monitoring Earth's ionosphere, [1] under development by the European Space Agency's Space Safety Programme (S2P). [2] SWING will be the agency's first space weather nanosatellite and the first part of the S2P's Distributed Space Weather Sensor System (D3S). [3] [4] It is expected to launch in 2027. [5]

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Background

The prime contractor of the mission is the French company Hemeria, [2] [6] [7] [8] [9] while Syntony GNSS (France) will provide the satellite's GNSS receiver [10] and Planetek (Italy) will develop the mission operations center. [11] The satellite's design is based on Hemeria's HP-IOT nanosatellite platform. [12] [13]

Instruments

The satellites's payload consists of four instruments: [12]

References

  1. ↑ "OFRAME Website". www.meteo-espace.fr. Archived from the original on 2025-11-17. Retrieved 2025-11-17.
  2. 1 2 Parsonson, Andrew (2024-11-22). "ESA Awards Hemeria €9.8M Contract for Space Weather Nanosatellite". European Spaceflight. Retrieved 2025-11-17.
  3. ↑ "ESA's upcoming Space Weather Missions to the inner Magnetosphere".
  4. ↑ ESA S2P Approach on Space Weather Commercialisation
  5. ↑ "ESA Space Safety Fleet". www.esa.int. Retrieved 2025-11-17.
  6. ↑ "Hemeria to implement ESA's first space weather nanosatellite mission". www.esa.int. Retrieved 2025-11-17.
  7. ↑ "Le toulousain Hemeria produira le premier nanosatellite européen de météo spatiale". www.latribune.fr (in French). 2024-11-21. Retrieved 2025-11-17.
  8. ↑ "ESA : un nanosatellite européen de météo spatiale en 2026".
  9. ↑ Indépendante, L'Opinion. "Toulouse : Hemeria choisi par l'ESA pour son premier nanosatellite de météorologie spatiale". lopinion.com (in French). Retrieved 2025-11-17.
  10. ↑ Goudenove, Raphaël (2024-12-04). "Syntony's AQUILA Selected for ESA's SWING Space Weather Mission". Syntony. Retrieved 2025-11-17.
  11. ↑ "Planetek to develop Mission Operations Center for ESA's Swing Space Weather nanosatellite | Planetek Italia". www.planetek.it. Retrieved 2025-11-17.
  12. 1 2 "Swing mission overview". www.esa.int. Retrieved 2025-11-17.
  13. ↑ "HP-IOT". Hemeria. Retrieved 2025-11-17.
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