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The ESA Space Weather team is pleased to announce that SWE Portal 3.17.0 was released on the 15th of October 2026.
In this update, the ESA SWE Services have been enhanced with the incorporation of the following new and updated products and tools:
Not sure which products are linked to which service? Find the latest Service-Product linking here in the upgraded look and feel of Product to Service Component Mapping
The ESA Space Weather Service Network Portal has been updated to reflect the latest version of the customer requirements document. These changes include updates to the naming and scope of some services and service domains.
From the Solar Weather Expert Service Centre:
- The Solar Influences Data analysis Center (ROB/SIDC) provides:
- ROB/SIDC products now display a new harmonised look, improved with stylesheets updates, enhancing consistency, navigation, visual presentation and help pages
- The Solar Patrol Service (ASU CAS/SPS) provides:
- ASUCAS/SPS products White light Solar images, Halpha Solar images and Sunspot group characteristics updated with usability improvements such image carousel, zoom-in functionality, plus updated product/help text and magnetic classification support for sunspot groups at Sunspot group Characteristics.
- From The Institut de recherche sur les lois fondamentales de l'Univers (CEA/IRFU) provides:
- Solar Magnetic Activity Forecasting has been updated with improved quartile-based uncertainty information on plot and data from Q3 2026, including mean and median trajectories of the ensemble forecast. The Help, archive and API now accommodate this change
- The Kanzelhöhe Observatory for Solar and Environmental Research (UNIGRAZ/KSO) provides:
- UGraz/KSO products suite display a new harmonised look with stylesheet updates and migration to the new SSO system in the background, enhancing consistency, navigation, visual presentation and help pages.
From the Heliospheric Weather Expert Service Centre:
- UK Met Office (UKMO) provides:
- An update to the near-Earth space weather notifications Alert/E. The 4-day probabilistic forecast scales have been made more granular by September 29, 2026. Before this change, the probabilities were provided against grouped forecast levels, now the probabilities are provided against each individual level.
- Infor'marty provides:
- The Magnetic Connectivity tool is featuring a number of highlights, such as the integration of the JUICE cruise phase orbit and its point of view in the tool. Additionally it includes a Flare connectivity alert, which is proximity flag of the connectivity footpoints at the Sun with a flaring region, and to provide the user with an appropriate warning for each point of view. More EUV imagery has been also included with the integration of EUV maps from product S.050a Synchronous synoptic maps of the solar corona in the UV and extreme-UV, in addition to SDO/AIA and Solar Orbiter/EUI maps.
- SWIFT has undergone improvements in the ensemble models, latest input data, and the plots graphics have been made to display the same data with more clarity. Better visualisation of the uncertainty intervals, through the use a varying colour gradings will show the uncertainty probability distribution function.
- Shocktool presents improvements the inclusion of the JUICE cruise phase orbit, and enhancements on the Help text.
- Please be aware that UKMO SW-L1, AWARE and AWARE_NXT from DTU Space, had performed a data source switch in the pipeline from DSCOVR in-situ data to SOLAR-1 in-situ data.
From the Space Radiation Expert Service Centre:
- The Space Radiative Environment Research Group (ONERA/ERS) provides an upgraded version of RB-FAN related products:
- R.213 (upgrade): It now provides also SEE and Human Spaceflights risks alerts related to high energetic protons (10MeV, 50MeV and 100MeV)
- R.215 (upgrade): Is now also provides the time evolution of R.213 upgrades
- R.231 (new): A no risk indicator for surface charging relying on the time passed in the plasmasphere for a given s/c
- R.232 (new): An expert product displaying the time evolution of R.231
- R.233 (new): A SEP risk alert is now provided to the user for the next 24h.
- R.234 (new): It provide the total fluence related to a SEP alert (R.233) and the temporal evolution when a SEP is active.
- Last but not least, the website and user configuration database are now hosted on ESOC servers, ensuring robust data protection and privacy.
- The Royal Belgium Institute for Space Aeronomy (BIRA-IASB) provides:
- The COMESEP Alert System has been retired due to long-standing maintainability issues. The SEPForecast tool has been reimplemented as a standalone product (https://swe.ssa.esa.int/bira-sepforecast-federated). Users who wish to continue to receive SEP alerts by e-mail are recommended to subscribe through the new product pages.
- The Space Applications & Research Consultancy (SPARC) provides:
- The input data source for all the GEO-NGRM products (R.170-175) provided by SPARC has been updated from L2 EDRS-C/NGRM to re-scaled L1 MTG/NGRM due to the non-availability of EDRS-C/NGRM data.
- From the ESA Space Weather Office:
- The European Debris Impact Data Database (EDID; R.107) has been removed from the SWE service network due to the removal of content relating to micro-particles. Therefore, this product is no longer available via this portal.
From the Ionospheric Weather Expert Service Centre:
- ESA SWE Data Centre (SWE Portal) provides:
- An update of Ionospheric Scintillation Monitoring (ISM) products suite with an enhanced GNSS station network and optimized parallel processing configuration, providing improved global coverage and operational performance.
- To ensure compatibility with the IMPC naming convention, which is also used in all other IMPC products, the product Maximum Usable Frequency for skip-distances of 750 km (MUF750) directory structure and file names have been adapted.
- IONMON maps animations of ionospheric Total Electron Content will no longer display the subsolar point and the magnetic equator line.
From the Geomagnetic Expert Service Centre:
- Starion UK Ltd and the British Geological Survey (BGS) provides a new demonstration application:
- Simulations of geomagnetically induced currents (GICs) in high-voltage electricity transmission networks across Europe (EuroGIC) in both near real-time ("nowcast") simulations and historical storm replays. Users can visualise estimated GIC levels across a European transmission network model, explore historical space weather events, and configure alerts for when predefined thresholds are exceeded.
- The Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF) has removed the internal navigation between its product pages to align with the SWE Portal guidelines.
- Please be aware that DTU Space StormRisk and BIGG suite from UiO and Imperial had performed a data source switch in the pipeline from DSCOVR in-situ data to SOLAR-1 in-situ data.
From the ESA Space Weather Office:
- NGRM is the second Space Weather instrument flying as part of ESA's Distributed Space Weather Sensor System (D3S). Latest data from the NGRM instrument onboard the MetOpSG-A1 spacecraft is now provided as part of the General Data Services. Access this via the SWE Data Browser or API and find out more about NGRM here.
- SWING is ESA's first dedicated Space Weather mission within the Distributed Space Weather Sensors System (D3S) programme. Information on the mission, its instruments and planned data products can be found on the ESA Space Weather Data dedicated webpage (SWING).
- The ROSIE radiotelescope in Bialków, Poland, provides data on F10.7 and F30 radio fluxes in different cadences. Plots of daily averaged of F10.7 and F30 radio flux can be found at the ESA Space Weather Data dedicated webpage (ROSIE), and also at the Space Weather Monitoring Dashboard.
Changes made to product APIs in this release:
- R.231-R.234: RB-FAN products data is now made accessible through the product's API. See the products help page for more information.
An update to the "Use of L5 data in CME propagation models" under the Feasibility Studies and Demonstrators on Space Weather at ESA is offered, with a summary of the recommendations and conclusions of the activity.
Your feedback is important! We kindly invite you to participate in a survey to tell us your thoughts on the new SWE Portal, all feedback is welcome and will help improve the SWE Portal and better tailor our services to your needs.
Our SSCC helpdesk are here to help and can be contacted by sending us an email (helpdesk.swe@esa.int) or by filling the SWE Portal support request form. A short user satisfaction survey is accessible at the bottom of our replies upon closure of your requests, we would be grateful if you could follow the link to provide feedback on our helpdesk response and help us to improve our service.
Please contact the SSCC Helpdesk (helpdesk.swe@esa.int) for any further information.
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