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ESA has signed a contract with Hemeria worth €9.8 million to design, build and operate Swing, the Agency’s first space weather nanosatellite mission. Swing will aim at demonstrating the value of nanosatellites to gather space weather data and support the commercialisation trend in the New Space era.
Space Safety

Hemeria to implement ESA’s first space weather nanosatellit…

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Double trouble: Gaia hit by micrometeoroid and solar storm

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Airbus to build ESA’s Vigil space weather forecasting missi…

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Space Safety

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Solar flare captured by ESA’s Proba-2 SWAP
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SMOS and Swarm team up to spot huge solar storm

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Sun fires off largest flare of current solar cycle

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Science & Exploration

Solar Orbiter discovers tiny jets that could power the sola…

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Solar System fingerprints found in memories of ESA flotilla

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Science & Exploration

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Solar flare caught by SOHO
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Forecasting Solar Storms with the Solar Energetic Particle …

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Curious comet’s rare close approach

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Enabling & Support

Smartphone chips flown in orbit for space weather monitoring

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SOHO captures coronal mass ejection blasting from the Sun's far side in the direction of Venus
Enabling & Support

Coronal mass ejection hits Solar Orbiter before Venus flyby

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Aurorae
Space Safety

Protecting Artemis and lunar explorers from space radiation

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Artist's view of Swarm
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Swarm dodges collision during climb to escape Sun’s wrath

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Trisat-R
Enabling & Support

AI CubeSat headed to Van Allen Belts on Vega-C

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Auroral beads
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Magnetic vortices explain mysterious auroral beads

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Space Safety & Security at ESA
Space Safety

New home for Earth’s protectors

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Science & Exploration

Solar Orbiter crosses the Earth-Sun line as it heads for th…

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Science & Exploration

Giant solar eruption seen by Solar Orbiter

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Vigil warns Earth
Space Safety

Introducing ESA Vigil: Earth’s devoted solar defender

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Integral
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Space weather
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Space Safety
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Space Safety & Security at ESA
Space Safety

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Space Safety

Podcast: Name our space weather mission

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Space Safety

Name ESA’s new mission! (CLOSED)

17/05/2021 43149 views 162 likes
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Space Safety

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Click on image to see the huge flare produced on 4 November 2003
Space Safety

ESA's Portal to the Sun gets an upgrade

17/12/2020 2621 views 9 likes
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