SAWA (spacecraft)

Sawa
Mission typeSpace weather
Operator European Space Agency
Mission duration3 years (planned)
Spacecraft properties
BusHyperSat
ManufacturerPoland Creotech Instruments SA
Start of mission
Launch date2028 (planned)
Orbital parameters
Reference systemGeocentric
RegimeSun-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[a] 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]

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Notes

  1. ↑ The Space Research Center would become the Polish Space Agency in 2014.

References

  1. ↑ Jujeczko, Paweł; Knapkiewicz, Paweł; Rothkaehl, Hanna; Wawrzaszek, Roman; Belyayev, Serhiy; Morawski, Marek (2026-03-14). Sawa: A Small Space Weather Mission for Investigations of Magnetosphere-Ionosphere-Thermosphere Coupling (Report). Copernicus Meetings.
  2. ↑ "ESA's upcoming Space Weather Missions to the inner Magnetosphere".
  3. 1 2 3 ESA's Distributed Space weather Sensor System (D3S) – Missions and Data
  4. ↑ "Space Weather Sensors". www.esa.int. Retrieved 2026-04-17.
  5. ↑ "Building a European space weather monitoring fleet". www.esa.int. Retrieved 2026-04-17.
  6. ↑ Ramsey, David N.; Parnerkar, Rohan; Wang, Ellen; Paladugu, Rohan; Noel, Alexis; Lightsey, Glenn; Ahuja, Krishan K. (2026-01-12). "Preliminary Design and Analysis of the HyperSat using CubeSat Technologies". AIAA 2026. American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. doi:10.2514/6.2026-1561. ISBN 978-1-62410-765-8.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: periodical has ISBN (link)
  7. ↑ "Creotech signed an agreement with ESA regarding a mission investigating space weather - Poland Insight". 2024-11-20. Retrieved 2026-04-17.
  8. ↑ Długopolski, Marek (2026-03-10). "Małopolska, Kraków, Krakowski Park Technologiczny oraz Creotech Instruments coraz śmielej myślą o podboju Kosmosu". Dziennik Polski (in Polish). Retrieved 2026-04-17.
  9. ↑ "ESA Space Safety Fleet". www.esa.int. Retrieved 2026-04-17.
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