The IWF Graz looks back on a successful 2025, a year marked by many highlights.

Two space missions carrying Graz-built magnetometers were launched: the China Seismo-Electromagnetic Satellite (CSES-2) and the Space Weather Follow On–Lagrange 1 (SWFO-L1). BepiColombo flew past Mercury one last time before the European-Japanese dual-probe mission reaches its destination in November 2026. ESA's JUpiter ICy moons Explorer (JUICE) performed a course correction near Venus, thereby completing the second of four gravity assist maneuvers before its arrival in the Jupiter system in 2031.

IWF members published 136 articles in peer-reviewed international journals (4 of times in Nature), including 34 as first authors. At the same time, IWF articles were cited 10,671 times. 95 talks (32 of them invited) and 39 posters were presented at international conferences.

All highlights and other research achievements of the IWF in 2025 have been summarized on 57 pages. You can find the link to the report here:

IWF Annual Report 2025

Previous issues from 2001 onwards can be found in our annual report archive.

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