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AN: GP31A-01    [Abstracts]
TI: ESA's Magnetic Field Mission Swarm
AU: * Haagmans, R
EM: Roger.Haagmans@esa.int
AF: ESA-ESTEC, Keplerlaan1, Postbus 299, Noordwijk, 2201 AZ, Netherlands
AU: Menard, Y
EM: yvon.menard@esa.int
AF: ESA-ESTEC, Keplerlaan1, Postbus 299, Noordwijk, 2201 AZ, Netherlands
AU: Kern, M
EM: michael.kern@esa.int
AF: ESA-ESTEC, Keplerlaan1, Postbus 299, Noordwijk, 2201 AZ, Netherlands
AU: Drinkwater, M
EM: mark.drinkwater@esa.int
AF: ESA-ESTEC, Keplerlaan1, Postbus 299, Noordwijk, 2201 AZ, Netherlands
AB: Swarm is the fifth Earth Explorer mission in ESA's Living Planet Programme. The objective of the Swarm mission is to provide the best ever survey of the geomagnetic field and its temporal evolution. The Mission shall deliver data that allow access to new insights into the Earth system by improving our understanding of the Earth's interior and climate. The mission is nominally scheduled for launch in 2010. After release from a single launcher, a side- by-side flying lower pair of satellites at an initial altitude of about 450 km and a single higher satellite at 530 km comprise the Swarm constellation. High-precision and high-resolution measurements of the strength, direction and variation of the magnetic field, complemented by precise navigation, accelerometer and electric field measurements, will provide the observations that are required to separate and model various sources of the geomagnetic field. At present the project is at the beginning of the development phase. The current project status, product performance, and on-going scientific studies will be given special attention during the presentation.
DE: 1594 Instruments and techniques
SC: Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism [GP]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting