The objective of this network is to share resources and to co-ordinate efforts in all domains related to the interaction of Spacecraft with the space plasma. The creation of this network and its primary objectives have been decided during a Round Table held on 24-2-2000 at ESTEC. SPINE stands for Spacecraft Plasma Interactions Network in […]
The SPINE community is an open, peaceful and non-profits scientific and industrial community, dedicated to the study and the modelling of the interactions between space plasma and space systems, including spacecraft, payloads, scientific instruments, natural space objects. Spacecraft-plasma interactions include: spacecraft charging, in surface (i.e. surface charging) the computation of the electrostatic sheath structures and […]
Developed tools and SPINE related activities have led to numerous scientific publications and communications.
C. Imhof, M. K. G. Holmberg, G. Deprez, F. Cipriani, S. Verstaen and J. Lange, “The Quest for Conductivity – Surface Charging Control for the Juice Mission,” 2022 ESA Workshop on Aerospace EMC (Aerospace EMC), Virtual, 2022, pp. 1-6,
doi: 10.23919/AerospaceEMC54301.2022.9828847.
Bergman, S.; Stenberg Wieser, G.; Wieser, M.; Johansson, F. L.; Vigren, E.; Nilsson, H.; Nemeth, Z.;
Eriksson, A.; Williamson, H.; Ion bulk speeds and temperatures in the diamagnetic cavity of comet 67P from RPC-ICA measurements, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2021;, stab584, doi:10.1093/mnras/stab584
C. Imhof: Simulation of the electrostatic charging of the MetOp‑SG satellites
in the polar auroral zone, CEAS Space Journal, 12, pp 137 – 147, 2020,
Johansson, F. L.; Eriksson, A. I.; Gilet, N.; Henri, P.; Wattieaux, G.; Taylor, M. G. G. T.; Imhof,
C.; Cipriani, F. A charging model for the Rosetta spacecraft A&A, vol. 642, 2020. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202038592
The SPINE community organises regularly meetings and events. SPINE meetings are open to all participants and, in most of the cases, without registration fee.
SPIS, for Spacecraft Plasma Interaction Software, is a rich and advanced 3D modelling tool for the spacecraft-plasma interactions, able to model a large set of phenomenon relative to spacecraft charging. SPIS includes an advanced 3D electrostatic plasma solver based on a unstructured mesh and able to dynamically model detailed sheath structures around complex and realistic […]