{"id":80584,"date":"2013-07-26T21:40:56","date_gmt":"2013-07-26T13:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/university-of-calgary-leads-in-esa-triple-satellite-mission\/"},"modified":"2013-07-26T21:40:56","modified_gmt":"2013-07-26T13:40:56","slug":"university-of-calgary-leads-in-esa-triple-satellite-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/university-of-calgary-leads-in-esa-triple-satellite-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"University of Calgary Leads in ESA Triple-Satellite Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tags: ESA, Satellite Mission, Earth 
\nPublication: UCalgary.ca
\nPublication Date: 07\/26\/2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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University of Calgary scientist Johnathan Burchill and COM DEV Canada technician Kevin Lush prepare a Swarm Electric Field Instrument for testing at the university. <\/em><\/p>\n

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Space scientists at the University of Calgary<\/b> have a principal role in the European Space Agency<\/b> (ESA)<\/b> Swarm mission, a triple-satellite mission created to better understand Earth\u2019s magnetic field, including the weakening of our planet\u2019s protective \u201cshield\u201d against cosmic radiation.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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University scientists in the Department of Physics and Astronomy also contributed to the early design, in-flight software, and final testing for a space plasma imager, one of the instrument\u2019s critical components.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Swarm\u2019s three identical satellites, built by Astrium, each carry a total of three different instruments designed to distinguish between global and regional effects of different sources of magnetism.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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The Swarm mission is scheduled to launch in November. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Tags: ESA, Satellite Mission, Earth  Publication: UCalgary.ca Publication Date: 07\/26\/2013 University of Calgary scientist Johnathan Burchill and COM DEV Canada technician Kevin Lush prepare a Swarm Electric Field Instrument for testing at the university.  Image credit: David Knudsen Space scientists at the University of Calgary have a principal role in the European Space Agency (ESA) Swarm […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80584"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}