Swarm Introduction

Swarm is an ESA project from the Living Planet Programme, with is a concept consisting of a constellation of three satellites in three different polar orbits, providing precise measurements of the strength and direction of the earth magnetic field. Taking full advantage of a new generation of magnetometers and simultaneous measurements over different regions of the Earth, Swarm will provide monitoring of the time-variability aspects of the geomagnetic field.

News:

• ESA's Second Swarm International Science Meeting
  June 24-26, 2009, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Germany
• First Swarm International Science Meeting,
  May 3-5, 2006 in Nantes, France.

Related Links to ESA or ESA documentation:

• ESA Lokale Nachrichten: Blick in das Erdinnere (in German) 
• ESA: About the living planet programme
• ESA: Swarm Mission Report
• ESA: Swarm Technical Annex
• ESA: Swarm Presentation (12.3MB!)

Related Projects:

• CHAMP (GFZ Potsdam) and
• Ørsted  (the danish satellite).