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Swarm Charlie VFM anomaly on 27 – 28 December 2022

03 Jan 2023

Due to an anomaly registered on the VFM (Vector Field Magnetometer) on board Swarm Charlie spacecraft, the VFM science data was not received from 27 December at 19:26 UTC to 28 December 2022 at 11:07 UTC.

The production of Swarm Charlie L1B magnetic data, L2 FAC, FAC_AC and IBI data has been affected during this time window and cannot be recovered. 

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