European Space Agency ESA views on the future SSA-SWE activities in Europe 9 th European Space Weather Week 5-9 November 2012 Nicolas Bobrinsky Juha-Pekka Luntama Alexi Glover

European Space Agency ESA SSA-SWE Activities Background There are many threats for the European orbital infrastructure  Space debris and micro-particles  Satellite collisions  Space weather ESA is a space systems developer and one of the big European satellite operators  16 satellites in operation and 12 missions in preparation ESA has a strong interest in => protection of European space infrastructure => protection of ground infrastructure dependant of space segment => protection of ground infrastructure sensitive to space weather ESA has expertise in implementing and operating space systems => Architectural role and obligation to participate to the developments in the SSA sector

European Space Agency Space Weather Impacts on Infrastructure

European Space Agency ESA SWE Near and Medium Term Objectives Establishing and validating a ”model” of an SSA network Continued use of existing national, European and ESA assets Continue development of precursor services Definition of the process of services provision in a user friendly and infrastructure transparent way Ensured continuous availability of the mission critical services Establishment of new space-based sensors  Hosted payloads on ESA and other European missions  Development of dedicated SWE missions (e.g. KuaFu)

European Space Agency ESA Long Term Role in SWE Area ESA know-how has a key role in definition of the European SSA architecture – including SSA-SWE Segment ESA works in close coopeation with its Member States and European institutions (e.g. EC, EEAS, EDA,...) The objective of the work is to support the process for:  Definition of the organisational structure for overseeing the full SSA system-of-systems  Identification of European service providers in each SSA segments  Development of selected ground and space-based sensors for SWE  Establishment of pre-operational SWE services  R&D activities supporting the future SSA system

European Space Agency Evolution of ESA SSA-SWE Activities Federated approach for the SWE services will be continued and enhanced  Services based on SSA Mission and Customer requirements  Service provision based on European expert groups => Expert Service Centres  Number of participants in the ESCs is expected to increase  New ESCs will be established based on the identified need => Interplanetary environment is one of the candidates  The ESC concept including the roles of the coordinating entities will be elaborated  Service Level Agreements (SLAs) will be established with the ESCs for the service provision => Coverage of the manpower costs and support for asset maintenance

European Space Agency Enhancement of SSA-SWE Services SSA Precursor Service Review: Precursor services from SSA PP are already providing added value for the user community in Europe There are known gaps in the currently available services => Roadmap to address the gaps and to develop missing services => Utilisation of building blocks for new services already existing or under development in Europe => Establishment of new services and development of new building blocks Particular focus areas for SSA-SWE include: Solar activity forecasting Heliospheric propagation modelling Geoimpact prediction and monitoring User requirements! Enhancement of the SSCC and improved user support

European Space Agency Enhancement of the SWE Observation System Ensured availability of observations is a prerequisite for SWE services Planned SSA-SWE Segment activities include  Networking of available national and European SWE assets  Consolidation of architecture of the SSA-SWE space segment  Continuing the development of SWE instrumentation in coordination with ESA tecnology programmes  Planning of dedicated SWE missions including missions to L1  Establishmend of agreements for observation data with asset owners SWE Data Centre will have a key role in data dissemination and archiving for all SSA-SWE missions

European Space Agency SSA-SWE Space Segment Development SSA Period 2 proposal includes SWE activities for  SWE instruments as hosted payloads  Radiation environment, s/c charging, solar x-ray, micro- particles, magnetic field and plasma measurements  Phase C/D development for selected instruments with identified flight opportunities  AO flight opportunities for nationally developed instruments  System studies for enhanced SWE monitoring away from the Sun-Earth line  Exploitation of data from existing and already planned SWE missions including e.g. Proba-2, Galileo FOC, MetOp, MTG,…  Phase A/B/C/D development of a wide-angle white-light coronagraph  Phase A/B studies on new space based SWE instruments

European Space Agency SSA-SWE Technologies Development Studying and prototyping essential new technologies for SWE observations Complementary to R&D activities in GSP, TRP, GSTP and research programs outside ESA Concentrate on high Technology Readiness Levels s Technologies addressed include  Magnetometers,  Plasma instruments and particle spectrometers,  Highly miniaturized radiation monitors,  Extreme UV solar imagers,  In-situ micro-particle sensors  Advanced ground based sensor technologies, especially for improved coverage over polar and ocean areas),  Ground data systems.

European Space Agency Top-down Design of the System Architecture

European Space Agency SSA-SWE Precursor Service System in 2012 SWE Service Coordination Centre, Space Pole, Belgium SWE Service Coordination Centre, Space Pole, Belgium SSA-SWE Users SWE Data Centre Redu, Belgium SWE Expert Service Centre Solar Weather ROB, Belgium (coord.) Uni. Graz, Austria SWE Expert Service Centre Ionospheric Weather DLR, Germany (coord.) NMA, Norway NOA, Greece SWE Expert Service Centre Space Radiation BIRA, Belgium (coord.) AIT, Austria UOA, Greece SWE Expert Service Centre Geomagnetic Conditions TGO, Norway (coord.) SSA-SWE Service Portal: swe.ssa.esa.int

European Space Agency International Collaboration in SWE Framework ESA is actively participating SWE activities in international frameworks  COSPAR Panel on Space Weather  UN OOSA Expert group C of the Long Term Sustainability Working Group  ISWI (International Space Weather Initiative)  WMO  ISES (International Space Environment Service)  ILWS (International Living With a Star) ESA follows closely EC FP7 space weather related projects => utilisation of the results in the SSA Programme framework

European Space Agency Thank you!