SAWA (spacecraft)
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| Mission type | Space weather |
|---|---|
| Operator |  European Space Agency |
| Mission duration | 3 years (planned) |
| Spacecraft properties | |
| Bus | HyperSat |
| Manufacturer |  Creotech Instruments SA |
| Start of mission | |
| Launch date | 2028 (planned) |
| Orbital parameters | |
| Reference system | Geocentric |
| Regime | Sun-synchronous |
| Altitude | ~550 km |
SAWA is a future space weather mission for monitoring Earth's thermosphere and magnetic field, under development by the European Space Agency's Space Safety Programme (S2P).[1][2] SAWA will be the second space weather nanosatellite of ESA's Distributed Space Weather Sensor System (D3S).[3][4][5] It is designed to provide observations complementing the first D3S mission, SWING.[3] The spacecraft, based on the HyperSat[6] platform, will include three instruments developed by the Space Research Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences and one by the Wrocław University of Science and Technology.[7] The mission's primary contractor is the Polish company Creotech Instruments SA.[8][3] It is expected to launch in 2028.[9]
