KSPT contract with European Space Agency on SWARM

Kongsberg Spacetec has signed a contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) on the SWARM Payload Data Facility and the Archive and Processing Facility Implementation.

SWARM will be a constellation of three satellites and will be launched in October 2010.

The objectives of the SWARM mission are to provide the best survey ever of the geomagnetic field and the first detailed description of the way this field changes on time scales from a day to several years.

Kongsberg Spacetec will be the prime contractor and has Werum Systems, Germany, as a sub contractor.

For more information about the customer: ESA