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ESA Support to SOLAR-B Hermann J. Opgenoorth
Solar and Solar Terrestrial Missions Division
ESA Science Directorate
• Programmatic
Framework
• Downlink
• Data Center
Solar Orbiter
Solar Sentinel Solar Dynamics
Observatory SDO
GEC, IT-SP &Swarm
STEREO
Solar-B
• Solar-Heliospheric Network observing Sun & tracking disturbances from Sun to Earth.
• Geospace Mission Network with constellations of smallsats in key regions of geospace.
Geostorm (Sub L1)
International Living With a Star Some Candidate Missions
BepiColombo
Kua-FU
Enhanced Polar Outflow Probe
MagCon
Coronas-Photon
STEREO
MMS
PICARD
Distributed network of spacecraft providing observations of Sun-Earth system.
GB
Ulysses
Solar Sentinel
STEREO
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TRACE
3
Solar Max Solar Max
ACE
GEOTAIL
POLAR
TIMED
SAMPEX
WIND
FASTIMAGE
CLUSTER
C/NOFS
SOLAR-BSDO
STEREO
MMSRBSP
EPOPCOSMIC
I-TSP
ILWS-Related Missions
EQUARS
DMSP/POES NPOESS
Solar Max
TWINS
GPS
SOHO
RHESSI
ULYSSES
THEMIS
ACRIMSAT/SORCECORONAS-F CORONAS-PHOTON
PICARDSST
SMEIL5 SOLAR ORBITER
INTERHELIOPROBE SOLAR SENTINELSGEOSTORM
DOUBLE STAR
RAVENS
INTERBALL/PROGNOZ
Kua-Fu
AIMSWARM
MESSENGER BEPI-COLOMBO
LANL/GOES/HEO
ROCSAT-2
FUV IMAGER
INDEX VULKAN
SOLAR
HELIOSPHERIC
MAGNETOSPHERIC
IONOSPHERIC
ORBITALS
Solar on ISS
SCOPE
ROY?
Earthshine
APEX/Maxwell
ESA Ground-Support for Solar-B
• Solar-B started out initially as a collaboration project between Japan, NASA, and the UK.
• Considering the extensive European and programmatic interest ESA decided in 2003 to join this collaboration within the ILWSframework by providing additional downlink supportfrom a high-latitude station.
• Goal: to increase the overall volume, availability and cadence of science data from the Solar-B mission, for the benefitof the international solar science community both in Europe and world-wide
• We chose to use KSAT on Svalbard instead of the ESA facility in Kiruna, which is already successfully employed for Astro-F
ESA Ground-Support for Solar-B
• Reasons: Antenna redundancy, possibility to track all 15 orbits every day and Norwegian interest in the mission.
ESA Ground-Support for Solar-B
In contract with ESA:
• Partial provision of the
data downlink @ Svalbard
• Additional provision of a
European Solar-B data centre
As Co-Investigators:
• Develop Quick look (QL) software
• Develop Data Analysis (DA) software
• Assist in instrument development,
calibration & future operation
Norwegian Involvment
Total Volume of agreed activities over 10 Meuro (shared approx. 80/20) : a) Downlink and data transfer support for a period of four years from launch (> 8 Meuro)
– Provision of X-band data downlink at 4 Mbits/s for every orbit of Solar B.– Provision of S-band downlink of up to 256 kbits/s for real time data.– Optional: provision of up to 256 kbits/s link to the Solar B Operations Centre at JAXA
(TBC) for real time data transmission to be used for planning purposes.– Optional: provision of capability to commanding Solar B with S-band uplink
- in case of special operational requirements. – Transfer of Science Data directly to JAXA using FTP or another protocol (TBC),
utilizing the new fibre optical cables from Svalbard to the main land.
• Previous atellite link from Svalbard to mainland replaced by two 1,300 km long fibre optic cables
Details of ESA/Norway Contract (1)
b) Establishment of European Solar-B Data
Centre in Oslo Norway (> 2 MEuro) - Create suitable facilities at the Institute of
Theoretical Astrophysics, Univ. of Oslo.– Archiving and calibration of Solar-B
Level 0 data in collaboration with JAXA and the PI groups
– Maintain and develop the required h/w ands/w to satisfy user needs as defined by theSolar-B Science Management Plan (TBC).
– Distribution of data to European users– Preparation of final archive for one year after mission completion
Details of ESA Norway Contract (2)
Conclusions
• ESA, in sub-contractual collaboration with the Norwegian
Space Centre, will provide one additional downlink contact
to Solar-B for each of the 15 orbits per day
• This will considerably improve the overall scientific data return
and the cadence of observations from the Solar-B mission
• The European scientific community
will be catered with processed data
through a dedicated Solar B data
centre at the University of Oslo
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…rise and shine Solar-B !