Swarm Daily News

Today the Military Space Forces have started to fuel the first 2 stages of the Rocket with fuel and oxidizer. […]

While the last works are done to prepare the rocket booster fuelling which takes place tomorrow morning, the customer and […]

Today was the day of the „Dress Rehearsal“. The launch day was copied and all spacecraft operations were performed as […]

Today the train transporting the Upper Composite (Space Head) has left the MIK at about 6h in the morning and […]

While the Astrium team starts packing the first equipment, the upper composite (space head) was moved to the general hall, […]

Today the encapsulation of the Swarm satellites has taken place. The both fairing halves were moved from their storage position […]

Today the switch on and the electrical checks of the 3 Swarm satellites after mating with the Breeze upper stage […]

Today the Breeze-KM upper stage arrived fuelled in the integration facility MIK. After lunch the adapter system with the three […]

Today the launcher upper stage was fuelled with the oxidizer. After successful fuelling, the Breeze-KM upper stage will be moved […]

While the Upper Stage was filled with compressed gases  today, the payload fairing was prepared in 101B. Several meetings and […]

Today all parties used the time for several preparation meetings for example for back transportation and movement of the electrical […]

While the Breeze-KM upper stage has been fuelled this weekend, the Swarm spacecraft team went to Archangelsk to enjoy local […]

Today the lifting device for the adapter system was installed in the cleanroom 101A so that in the evening the […]

On this Thursday morning in the cleanroom 101A, some remaining parts of Multi Layer Insulation (MLI) were installed on the […]

The new launch date for the ESA’s Magnetic Field Mission, originally scheduled for 14 November, is confirmed for 22 November […]

Today the ESA and Astrium teams switched on the SWARM satellite FM3 and successfully checked the electrical components of the […]

Today the 3rd and last SWARM satellite (FM 3) was successfully mounted on the launch vehicle adapter system. In cleanroom […]

The SWARM spacecraft flight model 2 was successfully electrically checked in 101A. At the same time the Breeze-KM upper stage […]

While the ESA, Astrium and Eurockot teams had a day off, the upper stage Breeze-KM together with the first two […]

On this Saturday the second Swarm spacecraft was successfully hoisted on the launch vehicle adapter system. The upper stage was […]

In the cleanroom 101A Khrunichev has prepared the interface brackets which shall be mated with the Swarm Flight Model (FM) […]

The day started with the mounting of the interface brackets on the first SWARM satellite (FM1). After a visual inspection […]

Today the day has started with the formal readiness review for mating of the first satellite on the launcher adapter […]

The launch preparation activities continue. The picture shows the three spacecraft in vertical position ready for installation onto the adapter […]

Today the three spacecraft were moved into vertical position. This was done in preparation of their installation onto the adapter […]

Today was a day off. Some members of the team took the chance to make a trip to the town […]

While the joint operations of the spacecraft team and the launch vehicle team is coming closer, the satellites are powered […]

While further electrical checks are conducted at the launch pad, the joint operations expected to start next week are further […]

The Swarm launch campaign now approaches the phase of joint operations during which the three Swarm satellites are integrated on […]

After the successful installation of the Rockot booster unit to the launch pad the operations continue in the integration facility […]

Today very important milestones for the Rockot launch vehicle preparation have been accomplished. This includes the transfer of the booster […]

At Eurockot’s launch site in the Plesetsk Cosmodrome the Swarm launch campaign today continues with the dry-run of the launch […]

During this weekend electrical checkouts of the launch vehicle are conducted to prepare the launch of the three Swarm satellites. […]

The Swarm launch campaign continues at Eurockot’s launch site in Northern Russia with preparations to transport the booster unit to […]

At the Rockot integration facility MIK the dispenser system is unpacked and assembled after having been transported to the cosmodrome […]

Today the launch vehicle preparations for ESA Swarm mission continue with the transfer of the Transport & Launch Container Extension […]

Snow has arrived at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome where preparation to launch ESA’s Swarm continues with the pneumatic checks of the […]

The work on the launch vehicle (LV) and spacecraft (SC) has been continued today. All activities with the LV transportation […]

Today is a day off for the Swarm launch team. Therefore, we decided to spend it in the best way […]

While all three Swarm spacecraft have been reunited in clean room 101A, the Breeze-KM upper stage, unloaded into the General […]

The propellant loading for Swarm spacecraft FM1 has been completed so that it is ready to be moved back from […]

The Freon loading on the third Swarm spacecraft (FM1) continued while the other two spacecraft (FM2, FM3) underwent further functional […]

Today the Freon loading of the third spacecraft (Flight Model 1) has started. In parallel to this activity the work […]

Tuesday, October 8, 2013, started with further Swarm No. 1 satellite processing for the Freon loading. The loading itself is […]

The fuelling team has rearranged the Freon loading equipment today. The Swarm No.1 was moved to 101B so that Astrium […]

This Sunday is the second day off since start of the launch campaign. The entire team enjoys the nice weather […]

Today the Astrium fuelling team has completed the Freon loading of the Swarm  No. 2 in cleanroom 101B. The Swarm […]

Spacecraft loading with Freon has continued today with Swarm No. 2 while the other two spacecraft were undergoing electrical checkouts. […]

Today the Astrium fuelling team has started the Freon loading of the Swarm No. 2 in cleanroom 101B. The Swarm […]

Yesterday evening the three Swarm satellites were rearranged in the cleanrooms. The freon loaded Swarm No.1 was moved in 101A […]

Fuelling continued in Hall 101B. The spacecraft undergo thorough checkout of its systems before and after fuelling. For this purpose the […]

Today, the three Swarm spacecraft underwent different treatments. The battery of spacecraft No. 1 was charged. A functional test was […]

Today, Sunday is the first Sunday off since the beginning of the Launch Campaign. The weather was cold, about 0°C […]

Today the Freon loading of the Swarm satellite No. 3 was continued. For safety reasons only a minimum number of […]

The day at MIK started with Freon loading of the Swarm No. 3 (see Fig.1). In parallel to this activity, […]

While the SWARM spacecraft flight model 2 was prepared for hoisting in 101A (see figure 1), the SWARM spacecraft flight […]

Today, on September 25, the weather has broken in Plesetsk: the winter has arrived.         In MIK the […]

The working day in Plesetsk started with the installation and preparation of the fuelling equipment.  The fuelling of the first […]

After the arrival of the SC fueling team from Astrium UK yesterday, the unloading of the container with the fuelling […]

Though today is Sunday, nevertheless the launch campaign activities were going on. Today the container with the last satellite, the […]

Today the work at MIK has been continued. The Astrium experts performed installation of electrical and mechanical ground support equipment. Meanwhile, […]

The second of three Swarm satellites with its ground support equipment has arrived in good shape at the Rockot integration […]

Today Swarm No.2 and its GSE arrived in Plesetsk Cosmodrome by IL-76 cargo plane from Munich. After landing the containers […]

After the first Swarm spacecraft container and two GSE containers were offloaded from the trucks in the MIK yesterday, the […]

The first of the three Swarm spacecraft took off this morning from Munich airport. The IL-76 cargo plane first flew […]