BackForward Satellite: SWARM-B 

Satellite details
Acronym SWARM-B
Full name The Earth’s Magnetic Field and Environment Explorers - B
WIGOS Station Identifier ---
Satellite Description
  • 3rd flight unit of the SWARM cluster.  Launched at the same time as SWARM-A&C.
  • Main mission: measurement of magnetic and electric fields in the magnetosphere.
  • Substantial contribution to gravity field measurement.
Mass at launch 473 kg Dry mass 367 kg
Power 600 W
Data access link https://earth.esa.int/web/guest/swarm/data-access
Data access information
  • Data available from the ESA/ESRIN PDGS in Frascati.
Orbit Drifting orbit Altitude 530 km
Inclination 87.75 °

 

Space agency ESA , CNES, CSA
Status Operational
Details on Status
(as available)
  • Position exchanged with that of SWARM-C because of the failure of ASM on that satellite.
Launch 22 Nov 2013 EOL ≥2025
Last update: 2023-11-06
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 SWARM-B

Acronym Full name
ACC Accelerometer
ASM Absolute Scalar Magnetometer
EFI Electric Field Instrument
GPS GPS Receiver
LRR Laser Retro-Reflector
STR Star Tracker Set
VFM Vector Field Magnetometer
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