Dear Colleagues and Friends of the Spacecraft Plasma Interaction Network in Europe !
We are happy to announce that the 33rd SPINE workshop, organised by ESA, will take place September 3-4 at ESA/ESTEC in The Netherlands.
Registration to the workshop and abstracts submission (see link below) will be open until August 23rd 2026.
The SPINE workshop is a European forum addressing all topics related to spacecraft plasma interactions.
We encourage contributions in the following areas:
- Electrical propulsion and plumes interaction with spacecraft, modelling and experiments, flight data analysis
- Platform effects on Plasma measurements onboard Scientific missions (JUICE, Bepi Colombo, Solar Orbiter, etc…)
- Lunar Surface charging, dust dynamics effects and interactions with systems in the context of lunar exploration and e.g. Deep Space Gateway
- High Performance computing and application to numerical codes for spacecraft – plasma interactions
- Evolution of internal charging analyses and models, real-time approaches
- Modelling chains from data and models to effects
- New methods e.g. Machine learning and Ai-related approcahes to spacecraft plasma environment data and interactions diagnostics
As usual the forum is fully open and contributions addressing the full range of topics (see below a non-exhaustive complementary list) are welcome!
- Evolution of surface and internal charging environments and standards
- Material properties (measurements, new materials, etc ..)
- Ground and space based experiments for surface and internal charging
- Electric propulsion driven plasma environments, electrical orbit raising
- Innovative numerical methods and approaches for surface and internal charging applications
- Charging of Cubesats, Nanosats, effects on (miniaturised) instrumentation
- Plasma (instrumentation and spacecraft electrostatic cleanliness)
- High power radiofrequency effects such Multipactor and Corona.
- Simulation tools performances, current and future developments, interoperability between tools
To register and submit your contributions, please use the following link: https://indico.esa.int/event/671/registrations
Workshop announcement (and timely updates) can also be found here: https://www.spis.org/community/events
Feel free to forward to potentially interested colleagues.
Should you have any question, please don’t hesitate to contact us!
Take care and we hope to see you at ESTEC in September!
Best Regards
The 33rd SPINE organising committee