The 22th meeting of the Spacecraft Plasma Interaction Network in Europe (SPINE) will be held on 23-24 March 2016 at CNES- The French space agency, Room Léonard de Vinci, 18 avenue Edouard Belin, 31 401 TOULOUSE CEDEX 9, FRANCE.
This will be a venue to discuss new research and technology roadmaps in the area of spacecraft plasma interactions and to present scientific results and work in progress. This SPINE meeting will be jointly organized by ESA, ONERA and the CNES CCT-Space and Atmospheric Environment and will particularly focus on the electric propulsion and the interaction of plasma plumes with spacecraft.
Nonetheless the following topics will also be addressed:
Electrostatic cleanliness, charging and deep dielectric charging of satellites
Plasma instruments
Material electrical properties (measurements, databases, new materials, etc ..)
SPIS performance and current and future developments
This list is not exhaustive and any other topics related to spacecraft-plasma interactions are potentially relevant.
Please indicate before 11 March 2016 whether you intend to participate and whether you would like to contribute with a presentation (title and author required) or a discussion topic. In such a case please indicate by sending an email to:
sebastien.hess – at – onera.fr
with copy to:
alain.hilgers – at – esa.int .
Also, please feel free to forward this invitation to anyone you think may be interested. Note : Participation to the meeting is free of charge and open to all organisations from ESA member states.
Because of access restriction to the CNES centre, it is required that all person that attend the meeting indicate it by mail before 11 March. In order to ease the access, please indicate your name, date and place of birth, nationality, company name and a valid passport number. A valid passport will be required to access the centre.
We intend to hold the 21st meeting of the Spacecraft Plasma Interaction Network in Europe (SPINE) on 18-19 May 2015 at ESA Head Quarters, Room C, 8-10 rue Mario Nikis, 75015 Paris, France. An access plan and other informations are available here.
This will be a venue to discuss new research and technology roadmaps in the area of spacecraft plasma interactions and to present scientific results and work in progress.
Preliminary agenda
We expect to especially address the following topics:
Electrostatic cleanliness, charging and deep dielectric charging of satellites
Plasma instruments
Electric propulsion environment and Solar Arrays contamination
Material electrical properties (measurements, databases, new materials, etc ..)
Modelling/Experiments on dusts grains in space and laboratory plasmas
SPIS performance and current and future developments
However, this list is far from exhaustive and any other topics related to spacecraft-plasma interactions are potentially relevant.
Please indicate before 1 May 2015 whether you intend to participate and to give the title of a presentation you would like to make or to propose additional discussion topics by sending an email to: Fabrice.Cipriani “at” esa.int and/or David.Rodgers “at” esa.int
Note: Participation to the meeting is free of charge and open to all organisations from ESA member states.
In order to promote contributions from the community, ESA/ESTEC has commissioned this course on the 20th and 21st of May 2014 with the specific aim of expanding knowledge on how to extend the core SPIS capabilities. It was always intended that SPIS would be a toolkit that could be readily modified and expanded and its the modular architecture was adopted for this reason. However, our experience has been that the knowledge on how to modify the code has not expanded far from the original developers and few other users have had the confidence to make modifications to the code.
There are a few spaces available on this course and you are invited to apply to attend until all spaces are filled. There is no charge. The registration dealine has been extended.
Indicative course content
1) Overview
Introduction to Keridwen, the Integrating Modelling Environment on which SPIS is based.
Introduction to the underlying technologies: Java, OSGi, Continuous integration, etc…
Review of SPIS architecture
SPIS-UI
SPIS-NUM
Third party libraries
Intellectual property rights and licenses schemes
Packaging rules and release policy
Validation process and integration test robot
2) Setting up the development environment
Installing the development environment: Java, Eclipse, MAven, Subversion
How to retrieve the source code
Integration of the source code in Eclipse
Compiling native components
Manually deploying and running SPIS on Apache Felix
Running SPIS on debug mode
Coding rules and qulity controls
3) Developing new features in SPIS
Key concepts
Modularity
Keridwen messaging
SPIS-UI data model
Modelling chain and state machine engine
Local parameters and properties
Global parameters
The UI to NUM data conversion
Features validation in integration test robot
SPIS packaging
Submitting your contribution to the community
4) Hands-on training
New feature development example showing in particular:
How to pass a new global parameter from UI to NUM
How to pass a new local parameters from UI to NUM
5) Open discussions and questions / End of the training
We intend to hold a meeting of the Spacecraft Plasma Interaction Network in Europe (SPINE) on 17 March 2014 at ESA HQ (Paris, France). This will be a venue to discuss new research and technology roadmaps in the area of spacecraft plasma interactions and to present new scientific results.
Preliminary agenda:
20th SPINE Meeting 17 March 2014 Room B0344 ESA HQ, 8-10 rue Mario Nikis, 75015 Paris, France
Invitation:
Participation to the meeting is free of charge and open to all organisations from ESA member states.
Please indicate your willingness to participate to the meeting and whether you plan to present some material (relevant to the above themes or not) by sending an email to: Alain Hilgers at esa dot int before 20 February 2014. The detailed agenda will be communicated later based on proposed contributions from participants on 25 February.
You are cordially invited to attend the 19th SPINE meeting and the final presentations of three ESA TRP funded activities, developed with the SPIS (Spacecraft Plasma Interaction System) software, followed by training on the SPIS-GEO and AISEPS applications.
Location and date:
All events will be held at ESTEC, Noordwijk the Netherlands from Tuesday 19 March to Thursday 21 March 2013.
Standards in the area of spacecraft plasma interactions
14:00-12:00
ESA’s Technology development plans (GSTP, TRP, SSA and others)
15:00-17:00
New results and current issues in the area of spacecraft plasma interactions
Wednesday 20 March – ESTEC/Dance Room
9:00-10:30
SPIS-GEO final presentation
10:40-12:10
SPIS-Science final presentation
12:10-13:00
Lunch break
13:00-14:30
AISEPS final presentation
14:40-17:30
SPIS-GEO training from 14:40 to 17:30 (2 hours 50 min)
Thursday 21 March – ESTEC room Ek139
9:00-17:00
AISEPS whole day training
Nota:
Please let us know by return mail to David.Rodgers@esa.int if you intend to attend any of these
The training sessions on SPIS-GEO and AISEPS are limited to about 10 persons. We therefore ask you
In case you intend to attend the SPINE meeting please indicate whether you intend to make a
events. also, if you are interested, to quickly and explicitly reserve your place for this specific event by returning this mail (first registered/first served) and we will let you know in advance. presentation and provide a title for it.
Meeting organisers: Eric Gengembre, David Rodgers, and Alain Hilgers
Further Information:
19th SPINE Meeting
The objective of the Spacecraft Plasma Interactions Network in Europe (SPINE) is to share resources and to co-ordinate efforts in all domains related to the interaction of Spacecraft with the space plasma, including spacecraft charging. It is acting as an advisory body for the ESA Space Environment and Effects Network of Competences. The 19th SPINE meeting is organised in coordination with several Final Presentations related to SPIS modelling framework which is supported by the SPINE community. . This meeting is open free of charge to all interested persons. Issues to be discussed, will include:
Possible new ISO standards in the area of spacecraft plasma interactions
and the need for updating of ECSS-E-ST-20-06C standard.
ESA’s Technology development plans (GSTP, SSA and others)
New results and current issues in the area of spacecraft plasma interactions.
Please inform David.Rodgers@esa.int to register your intention to attend and to propose additional discussion topics and presentations you would like to make.
SPIS-GEO: Simplified MEO/GEO tools for spacecraft charging
The European Space Agency has funded an activity called “Simplified MEO/GEO tools for spacecraft charging”.(SPIS-GEO)
This activity has been performed by an industrial consortium (ONERA, Astrium SAS, OHB-Sweden) led by the Artenum company. The aim of the SPIS-GEO project was to improve and adapt SPIS, a tool for the evaluation of surface electrostatic charging, so that it can be used without specialized training in the context of GEO/MEO applications.
SPIS has already shown its capabilities but required in general a high level of expertise to be fully exploited. The use of SPIS in an industrial context, such as for commercial missions in medium and geosynchronous Earth orbits (MEO/GEO), remained thus difficult and required experts in plasma physics and space environment.
SPIS-GEO addresses these issues with a fully redeveloped and deeply simplified user interface based on industrial standards. SPIS-GEO also includes extended models to handle the most relevant and critical configurations of commercial missions (e.g. eclipse exit transition, rich adaptable material properties).
SPIS-Science: Computational tools for spacecraft electrostatic cleanliness and payload.
The European Space Agency has funded an activity called “Computational tools for spacecraft electrostatic cleanliness and payload” (SPIS-SCIENCE).
The SPIS-SCIENCE project managed by ONERA aims at providing scientists with accurate evaluation of spacecraft plasma interaction effects for science missions with low-energy plasma instruments.
The SPIS (Spacecraft Plasma Interaction System) software has been modified in order to provide, at system level, accurate simulation of plasma interaction with spacecraft and instruments. Main new capabilities consists in: advanced instrumentation (plasma sensors, Langmuir probes, particle detectors), particle trajectory algorithms (Forward/backward, Test Particle method, exact/iterative solvers), simulation scenario (changes in simulation conditions), thin elements (wires, plates, semi-transparent grids), upgrade of boundary conditions, better user machine interfacing (pre/post processing, tabulated material properties).
Applications of the tool to Solar orbiter, Cluster and Cassini will be presented.
AISEPS: Assessment of the Interactions between Spacecraft and Electric Propulsion Systems.
The European Space Agency has funded an activity called “Assessment of the Interactions between Spacecraft and Electric Propulsion Systems” (AISEPS).
The AISEPS project managed by ASTRIUM SAS aims at moving a step forward in the simulation method, both from the accuracy and standardization point of view.
The SPIS (Spacecraft Plasma Interaction System) software has been modified in order to provide, at system level, accurate simulation of EP plume and its interaction with S/C. SPIS is an advanced tool to simulate spacecraft charging. Plume models for the eleven thrusters currently included in the Plume Database have been implemented in SPIS.
Application of the tool to SMART1, SGEO and Bepi-Colombo will be presented.
The 18th SPINE meeting will focus on the following themes:
R&D Requirements for Spacecraft Plasma Interactions
SPIS improvements and Evolutions
The meeting will also be a chance for people to present and discuss topics that may later be presented at invalid link : 12th Spacecraft Charging Conference(Illegal character in path at index 4: 12th Spacecraft Charging Conference).
1.1) Invitation and call for contribution
You are invited to participate in the 18th workshop in the SPINE series. Attendees are invited to make presentations on their work in the field of spacecraft plasma interactions. Presentations of a general nature are welcome and this is a good opportunity to present work to European colleagues that may later be given at the SCTC in May. In addition, we invite your ideas on two specific themes:
‘R&D Requirements for Spacecraft Plasma Interactions’ to help ESA to define a new Technical Dossier outlining the needs for future tools, testing, experimentation and Methodologies, and ;
‘SPIS improvements and Evolutions’ describing recent changes to SPIS and needs for future evolution.
Please indicate your intention to attend the meeting by and to make a presentation by sending an email to: David.Rodgers at esa.int preferably before 20 February 2012.
The meeting is preceded by a SPIS training session on 5-6 March. A second training course on 8-9 March may take place depending on registration numbers.Please note that the ESA-sponsored places on the first course and the second, if it takes place, have already been allocated.
In response to the community demand, Onera and Artenum, with the support of ESA, intends to organize a two days SPIS training course.
This course shall provide an introduction to the use of the spacecraft-plasma interaction tool SPIS. Its aim is to make new users autonomous regarding the basic uses of SPIS at the issue of the lecture. In addition, the course will act as a refresher course for more experienced users, to help make them familiar with new updates in the code. A special attention will be done on the basic modelling of a few classic space configurations like GEO and LEO orbits.
This course shall gather both talks and hands on trainings.
The participation to the SPINE meeting itself can be independent on the participation to the training.
2.2) Programme
A preliminary program is already available at the bottom of this page. Its contains may be updated according feedbacks gathered through the collected expressions of interest.
2.3) Expression of interest and cost information
Up to two sessions (of up to 12 students) are intended at ESA/ESTEC, in Netherland, in coordination with the next SPINE meeting (i.e. 2-days course 1, then 1-day SPINE, then 2-days course 2). The planned dates for the training are:
5-6 March 2012: SPIS training course – session 1
8-9 March 2011: SPIS training course – session 2
A participation fee of 1350.00 € VAT excluded by person for the 2 days lecture will be demanded to cover the organization cost, with a possibility of reductions for organizations (i.e. commercial company or academic) wishing to register for the same session more than one person. In this case a sliding scale fee is proposed (reduction of 5% on the fee for the second student, 10% on the third, 15% on the fourth…) in the limit of the maximum number of students by session.
In order to support the SPINE community dynamics, ESA also proposes an “ESA student grant” for a limited number of invited students. Preference will be given to ESA staff, academia and new users.. Please contact ESA for further information by mailing to Mr. David Rodgers (david.rodgers _at_ esa.int).
We remind you that, up to now, the organization of these “Winter school” sessions remains dependent on a minimum quorum of pre-registered students according your expressions of interest.
3) General practical information
3.1) Dates:
5-6 March 2012: SPIS training course – session 1
7 March 2012: 18th SPINE meeting. The meeting will start at 9:00 and end at noon in Wednesday, March 7.
8-9 March 2011: SPIS training course – session 2
3.2) Location
The ESA/ESTEC centre is located in Noordwijk, The Netherlands. The postal address is:
European Space Research & Technology Centre Postbus 299 2200 AG Noordwijk (The Netherlands)
17th SPINE Meeting – Computational tools for electrostatic cleanliness and space instrument accommodation analysis – 17-19 January 2011, Uppsala University, Uppsala Sweden
Computational tools for electrostatic cleanliness and space instrument accommodation analysis: Workshop and call for inputs
SPIS, the Spacecraft-Plasma Interactions System, is an open source software for spacecraft-plasma interaction simulations, developed and maintained by the Spacecraft Plasma Interaction Network (SPINE) and freely available at www.spis.org. In recent years, SPIS has been used for simulation of particles and field instruments on spacecraft, e.g. to meet the scientific needs for increased accuracy of measurements of low-energy ions and electrons and electric fields. This use is expected to increase as new space missions are upcoming or proposed, for example Bepi Colombo, Solar Orbiter and the Jupiter Ganymede Orbiter. To help in this process, ESA is funding an upgrade of SPIS to meet such needs by 2012. Community input is essential to ensure that the upgrade will concentrate on the features most needed. You are therefore invited to:
Contribute to the inputs for the SPIS development by stating your needs, ideas and wishes
The requirements for the coming SPIS upgrade based on user community inputs will be discussed at a SPINE meeting hosted by the Swedish Institute of Space Physics on the premises of Uppsala University, in Uppsala, Sweden, 17-19 January 2011 (conveniently close to Stockholm Arlanda airport, see details on web page below). The first part of the meeting will cover presentations of the cosmic vision missions, presentation of the SPIS software capability and of some key applications to scientific observations. The second part of the meeting will include presentations from the scientific community and discussion of the requirements. Meeting details are available at http://dev.spis.org/projects/spine/home/meeting/mxvii
Invitation and call for contribution
Research groups intending, proposing or designing plasma and field instruments for future European space missions or involved in data interpretation are hereby invited to submit their inputs, and to attend the SPINE workshop for discussions on the SPIS upgrade.
Key topics to be addressed include:
What problems related to spacecraft, plasma and electrostatic environment are expected for future European missions?
What simulations will be needed?
What capabilities and performance of simulation tools will be needed?
What are the current limitations in the existing simulation tools and especially SPIS?
Please send your inputs as well as indicate your willingness to participate to the meeting and whether you plan to present some material (relevant to the above themes) by sending an email to Anders.Eriksson_at_irfu.se
The detailed agenda will be communicated later based on proposed contributions from participants.
Please forward this announcement to any person you think might be interested.
Practical information
Dates:
10 Dec 2010: Please indicate your interest to participate in this process and in the meeting
7 Jan 2011: Input and meeting presentation submission, meeting registration
17-19 Jan 2011: Meeting of the Spacecraft-Plasma Interactions Network in Europe (SPINE), in Uppsala, Sweden. The meeting will start at 13:00 in Monday, Jan 17, and end at noon on Wednesday, Jan 19.
Location
Uppsala, Sweden. The meeting will be held in Museum Gustavianum, the old main building of Uppsala University, right opposite the main entrance to Uppsala Cathedral. See https://www.gustavianum.uu.se/?languageId=1
Accomodation
All hotels in the city centre are within walking distance. Closest (and very nice) are:
Hotell Villa Anna: http://www.villaanna.se/english/
Stockholm-Arlanda airport is 18 minutes by train from Uppsala. Trains normally run every 30 minutes. Taxi Arlanda-Uppsala costs SEK 450-460 SEK (around EUR 50) with the two main local taxi companies (be sure to get a fixed price!). The city centre is small, and the meeting as well as most hotels are within 15 minutes walk from the station. Renting a car is therefore not recommended, as you will hardly need it but will have to spend time and money parking it.
