HelioSwarm Representative Trajectories

The HelioSwarm Flight Dynamics team prepares representative trajectories for use in mission planning. As these can be useful for developing analysis techniques, the HelioSwarm team provides these to the community. They are provided in the form of summary files which will eventually evolve to be similar to a product planned during science operations; however, both the contents and the details of the format are preliminary!

The exact configurations will change rapidly; in particular, the representative trajectories do not represent a prediction of actual positions during the mision.

If you use these configurations for any analysis, please make note of the file version number and the corresponding reference design. Current version 0.3.0 of the summary files uses Swarm Reference Design 8, Flight System Transfer Trajectory 0x78f, dated 2026-03-05.

Most other details of the file format are in the CDF attributes.