SWING (satellite)

SWING
Mission typeSpace weather
Operator European Space Agency
Spacecraft properties
BusHP-IOT
ManufacturerFrance Hemeria
Start of mission
Launch date2027 (planned)
Orbital parameters
Reference systemGeocentric
RegimeSun-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, under development by the European Space Agency's Space Safety Programme (S2P). SWING will be the agency's first space weather nanosatellite and the first part of its Distributed Space Weather Sensor System (D3S). It is expected to launch in 2027.

Background

The prime contractor of the mission is the French company Hemeria, while Syntony GNSS (France) will provide the satellite's GNSS receiver and Planetek (Italy) will develop the mission operations center. The satellite's design is based on Hemeria's HP-IOT nanosatellite platform.

Instruments

The satellites's payload consists of four instruments:

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.