1,- 1Centrum Badań Kosmicznych Polskiej Akademii Nauk (CBK PAN), Warszawa, Poland
- 2Space Research Center, Faculty of Electronics, Photonics and Microsystems; Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Wroclaw, Poland
- 3Lviv Centre of Institute for Space Research (LC ISR), Lviv, Ukraine
- *A full list of authors appears at the end of the abstract
This work presents the concept of the SAWA mission, a Polish nanosatellite project designed to strengthen space weather monitoring. SAWA is developed in line with the European Space Agency’s Space Situational Awareness (SSA) and Space Safety (S2P) programmes and forms part of the Distributed Space Weather Sensor System (D3S). The mission aims to investigate magnetosphere–ionosphere–thermosphere (MIT) interactions using both in-situ observations and remote sensing techniques. Measured parameters include the geomagnetic field, plasma wave spectra, plasma density, thermospheric neutral density, and atomic oxygen density. An optional payload for energetic particle monitoring is under consideration. The mission has completed the analysis and feasibility stages (Phase 0/A) and is expected to become an important component of the European space weather awareness system in the coming years.
Agata Chuchra, Agnieszka Gil-Świderska, Dmytro Kotov, Dorota Przepiórka-Skup, Maryna Reznychenko, Jarosław Bąkała, Jan Błęcki, Tomasz Grzebyk, Mirosław Kowaliński, Tomasz Kowalski, Rania Kout, Barbara Matyjasiak, Bolesław Mellerowicz, Artur Miller, Karol Mostowy, Piotr Podgórski, Wiktor Snarski, Iwona Stanisławska, Piotr Szyszka, Daniel Ścisłowski, Jacek Taras, Patrycja Turek, Tomasz Zawistowski
How to cite: Jujeczko, P., Knapkiewicz, P., Rothkaehl, H., Wawrzaszek, R., Belyayev, S., and Morawski, M. and the SAWA team: SAWA: A Small Space Weather Mission for Investigations of Magnetosphere-Ionosphere-Thermosphere Coupling, EGU General Assembly 2026, Vienna, Austria, 3–8 May 2026, EGU26-10317, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu26-10317, 2026.
