SWING (satellite)

SWING 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 the S2P's Distributed Space Weather Sensor System. It is expected to launch in 2027.

Background

The prime contractor of the mission is the French company Hemeria, while Syntony GNSS will provide the satellite's GNSS receiver and Planetek 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:

DREAM, radiation monitor by CNES and Steel Electronique, France
XFM-NS, X-ray monitor by Isaware, Finland
m-NLP, Langmuir Probe by EIDEL, Norway
Aquila, GNSS instrument by Syntony, France