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  <Observatory>
    <ResourceID>spase://CDPP/Observatory/AMDA/SWARM</ResourceID>
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      <ResourceName>Swarm</ResourceName>

      <AlternateName>Swarm : ESA mission</AlternateName>

      <ReleaseDate>2019-07-01T00:00:00Z</ReleaseDate>
      <Description> Swarm is the fifth Earth Explorer mission approved in ESA's Living Planet Programme, 
        and was successfully launched on 22 November 2013. 
        
As part of the Third Party Missions programme, the e-POP instrument of the Canadian Space Agency's 
CASSIOPE mission joined the constellation in February 2018. 

The research objectives of the Swarm mission is to provide the best-ever survey of the geomagnetic 
field and its temporal evolution as well as the electric field in the atmosphere using a constellation of 
3 identical satellites - Swarm-A (Alpha), Swarm-B (Bravo), Swarm-C (Charlie) carrying sophisticated magnetometers and electric field instruments.
       </Description>
      <Acknowledgement/> 
      <Contact>
        <PersonID>spase://CDPP/Person/R.Floberghagen</PersonID>
        <Role>MissionManager</Role>
      </Contact>
      <Contact>
        <PersonID>spase://CDPP/Person/R.Haagmans</PersonID>
        <Role>ProjectScientist</Role>
      </Contact>
      <InformationURL>
        <Name>Swarm Home Page</Name>
        <URL>https://earth.esa.int/web/guest/missions/esa-eo-missions/swarm/data-handbook</URL>
        <Description/> 
      </InformationURL>
    </ResourceHeader>
    <Location>      
      <ObservatoryRegion>Earth.Magnetosphere</ObservatoryRegion>
    </Location>
    <OperatingSpan>
      <StartDate>2013-11-22T00:00:00</StartDate>
    </OperatingSpan>
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