BackForward Satellite: SOLAR-A 

Satellite details
Acronym SOLAR-A
Full name Space Weather at L1 A
WIGOS Station Identifier ---
Satellite Description
  • SW-Next programme as continuity and resilience for SWFO
  • Main missions: solar physics and space weather.
  • The instrumentation includes a Compact Coronagraph (CCOR), magnetometer, a Supra Thermal Ion Sensor (STIS), a Solar Wind Plasma Sensor (SWIPS), and an ESA provided X-Ray flux monitor (XFM).
Mass at launch Dry mass
Power
Data access link no link provided
Data access information
  • Data processing performed by the NWS Space Weather Processing Center (SWPC).
  • Archived data available from the NESDIS National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI).
Orbit Lagrange libration point 1 Altitude 1.5e+06 km

 

Space agency NOAA , ESA, NASA
Status Planned
Details on Status
(as available)
Launch ≥2029 EOL ≥2033
Last update: 2026-11-09
Associated satellite programme and related satellites

Note: red tag: no longer operational , green tag: operational , blue tag : future

Satellite Payload

All known Instruments flying on SOLAR-A

Acronym Full name
SWiPS Solar Wind Plasma Sensor
STIS SupraThermal Ion Sensor
MAG Magnetometer
XFM X-ray Flux Monitor
EPSI Electron Proton Spectrometer Instrument
SwSCOR Space Weather Solar Coronagraph
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