Airicist
23rd November 2013, 17:13
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Swarm (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swarm_(spacecraft)) on Wikipedia
Airicist
23rd November 2013, 17:14
https://youtu.be/NwHa08Pi6ms
Swarm: Understanding our life saver
Published on Nov 18, 2013
Earth's magnetic field is our life saver, protecting us from the energetic solar wind. The Swarm satellites will measure Earth's magnetic field to allow us to understand it for a safer future.
Airicist
23rd November 2013, 17:16
https://youtu.be/1Sx9z69AxS4
Swarm launch event
Published on Nov 22, 2013
Full replay of the Swarm launch event with footage from the European Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt, Germany, and from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in Russia, where the three Swarm satellites lifted off on a Rockot launcher on 22 November 2013.
The launch event includes welcome addresses by Jean-Jacques Dordain, ESA Director General; Prof. Volker Liebig, ESA Director of Earth Observation Programmes; and Thomas Reiter, Director of Human Spaceflight and Operations. Experts then reported on the development of the satellites, Earth's magnetic field and their expectations of the Swarm mission.
Launch from Plesetsk, Russia was at 12:02 GMT (13:02 CET). Contact was established with the trio just over an hour and a half later through the Kiruna station in Sweden and the Svalbard station in Norway.