Speaker
Description
ESA is implementing an enhanced Space Weather monitoring system consisting of missions to the solar wind for forecasting space weather events and the Distributed Space Weather Sensor System (D3S) to monitor the state of the Earth environment and space weather effects. D3S is built as a system of systems utilizing hosted payload opportunities as well as a range of dedicated missions addressing observations from the thermosphere, ionosphere out through the magnetosphere.
Three missions are currently being implemented: SWING will measure the ionosphere state and its solar drivers, SAWA will measure the thermosphere and magnetic field, and AURORA will measure the auroral emissions as well as magnetic field and radiation in MEO. A new mission proposed for adoption in the ministerial council at the end of 2025 is SWORD, which will measure the radiation belts, providing electron and proton pitch angle distributions, together with the magnetic field and plasma environments in an elliptical equatorial orbit. All missions will provide data in near-realtime to inform Space Weather nowcasts.
The presentation will provide an overview of these missions with their measurements and timelines, and also provide a future outlook.
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