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Intended Procurements in the Space Weather (SWE) Segment

SSA Industry Day

11 June 2013, ESOC

Juha-Pekka Luntama SSA Space Weather Segment Manager

ESA Unclassified – Releasable to the Public

European Space Agency

SWE Expert Service Centres

SSA/SWE Precursor Service System in 2013

SWE Service Coordination Centre,

Space Pole, Belgium

SSA-SWE Users

SWE Data Centre Redu, Belgium

SSA-SWE Service Portal: swe.ssa.esa.int

Solar Weather

ROB, Belgium

(coord.) Uni. Graz, Austria

Ionospheric Weather

DLR, Germany

(coord.) NMA, Norway NOA, Greece CLS, France

Space Radiation

BIRA, Belgium

(coord.) AIT, Austria UOA, Greece

Geomagnetic Conditions

TGO, Norway

(coord.) FMI, Finland

Heliospheric Weather

TBD

http://swe.ssa.esa.int/


SWE Segment objectives in SSA Period 2

1. Networking of available national and European SWE assets (sensors, data centres, service centres, service coordination, user support)

2. Continuation of the preparation of SWE additional services

3. Continuation of the Proba-2 operations and exploitation

4. Implementation of the first flight opportunities for hosted payload SWE instruments and planning for the future HP missions

5. Exploitation of SWE instruments, as well as data and European centres of expertise

6. Study (phase A) of a mission to ensure availability of solar wind, IMF and coronagraph data from L1

7. Studies of mission concepts for enhanced SWE monitoring and forecasting with sensors away from the Sun-Earth line

8. SSA-SWE technologies development


SSA/SWE Workplan 2013: Activities for ITTs

P2-SWE-101 SWE ESC Concept and Data Policy Definition

P2-SWE-103 Space Weather Service Developments (multi-ESC, cross domains)

P2-SWE-104 Solar Weather ESC Development

P2-SWE-105 Radiation Environment ESC Development

P2-SWE-106 Ionospheric Weather ESC Operations and Development

P2-SWE-107 Geomagnetic Conditions ESC Development

P2-SWE-108 Heliospheric Weather ESC Development

P2-SWE-201 SWE Data Centre Operations and Maintenance

P2-SWE-204 Testing of SSA SWE services during rocket launch campaigns

P2-SWE-208 SSCC Operations and Maintenance

P2-SWE-301 Phase C/D development of a magnetometer for solar wind monitoring missions

P2-SWE-302 Procurement of recurring NGRM instruments

P2-SWE-303 Procurement of recurring plasma instruments for hosted payload missions

P2-SWE-307 SWE data agreements

P2-SWE-402 Enhanced Space Weather Monitoring System (L1, L5, L4)

P2-SWE-403 Implementation of the EDRS hosted payload mission

P2-SWE-404 Implementation of HP instruments mission for Galileo spacecraft

P2-SWE-601 SWE Segment technical support

P2-SWE-602 SWE Segment architecture consolidation


SSA/SWE Workplan 2013: SWE contract: P2-SWE-I

P2-SWE-I: ESC Definition and Development

• Included activities: P2-SWE-101, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 307

• Definitions of ESC profiles, roles in support of service providers, SWE data

policy, data and product formats, validation and verification, ESC network

approach

• Provision of baseline service content for each thematic domain

• Identification of critical data items, expansion of the network, new service

products, workshops, updates of the roadmaps, service quality

• Definition of agreements to guarantee availability of critical data

• Selected domain specific developments and priorities

• Contract value: ~4600 k€

• Contract duration: 18 months

• Foreseen ITT: Q2/Q3 2013



Some key themes for ESC activities:

• Development

Additional partners broader range of data and products

Development of new services: evolution of mature products and data towards presentation as full SWE services

Targeted test campaigns with user involvement

Service performance metrics

• ESC Establishment and Coordination

Definition of ESC role as thematic centres of expertise

Specialist response to technical support requests received by SWE Helpdesk

Coordinated network response to major events: SWE alerting and forecast



• Some domain specific developments and priorities:

Solar Weather: data and domain specific alerting, enhancing the

nowcast/forecast products including max use of Proba2 data

Radiation environment: data, environment analysis tools, services for

s/c operators and aviation service development

Ionospheric Weather: cross-validation of TEC and scintillation products

from European sources

Geomagnetic Conditions: expansion of geographic coverage and

dedicated effort on services for power grid operators

Heliospheric Weather: establishing the ESC to include data, modelling

and elaboration of some new services for scientific missions to other

planets


SSA/SWE Workplan 2013: SWE contract: P2-SWE-II

P2-SWE-II: Space Weather Service Developments

• Included activities: P2-SWE-103

• Development of new, cross-domain services based on SWE CRD and SWE

service development roadmaps

• Focus on new services based on existing building blocks

• Complementary to service developments within the ESCs

• Contract value: 600 k€


• Foreseen ITT: Q4 2013


SSA/SWE Workplan 2013: SWE contract: P2-SWE-III

P2-SWE-III: SSA/SWE Data Centre Operations and Maintenance


• Standard operations and maintenance of the SWE Data Centre in Redu

• Evolutive maintenance for applications and software in the Data Centre





SSA/SWE Workplan 2013: SWE contract: P2-SWE-V

P2-SWE-V: Testing of SWE services during rocket launch campaigns


• Testing and validation of SWE services for launch operators

• Baseline testing carried out during sounding rocket launch campaigns (e.g.

ICI-4 and ICI-5)

• Services to be provided during the campaigns include

Estimates of space radiation environment

Estimates of ionospheric conditions

Risk estimates of micro-particle impacts





SSA/SWE Workplan 2013: SWE contract: P2-SWE-VI

P2-SWE-VI: SSCC Operations and Enhancements


• Monitoring of the quality and availability of the SWE applications and

federated services

• Provision of the end user helpdesk and first level user support

• Strengthened and pro-active interaction with the end users

• Collection of user feedback for service roadmap updates in coordination with

the ESCs

• Definition of requirements for SSCC development towards a forecasting

centre





SSA/SWE Workplan 2013: SWE contract: P2-SWE-VII

P2-SWE-VII: Magnetometer for solar monitoring missions


• Phase C/D of a new magnetometer specifically for hosted payload missions

• Objective is to achieve accurate magnetic field measurements for operational SWE services in a magnetically noisy environment.

• Prototyping of a suitable instrument has been done e.g. in the SOSMAG GSTP activity





SSA/SWE Workplan 2013: SWE contract: P2-SWE-IX

P2-SWE-IX: Galileo HP mission implementation

• Included activities: P2-SWE-303, P2-SWE-404

• Subject to an agreement with the Galileo Programme!

• Objective is to have SWE instruments in selected second batch Galileo spacecraft

• Options include

• Procurement of additional, recurring EMUs

• Designing of a new instrument matching EMU interface





SSA/SWE Workplan 2013: SWE contract: P2-SWE-X

P2-SWE-X: Enhanced Space Weather Monitoring System


• First study on the combined L1, L5, L4 monitoring system

• Two focus areas:

• Phase A of the L1 mission for solar imaging and solar wind monitoring

• Phase 0 of the combined SWE monitoring system with observations away from the Sun-Earth line (e.g. L5 or L4)

• Cost/benefit analysis of the combined SWE monitoring system is part of the activity





SSA/SWE Workplan 2013: SWE contract: P2-SWE-XII

P2-SWE-XII: Tailoring SWE services for the Arctic region


• Indentification of the service tailoring needs for the users in the Arctic region

• Analysis of the gaps and missing assets for the needed services

• Production of a roadmap for the implementation of the services taking into

account the identified SWE ESCs and the services provided by them





SWE Activities in 2014 - 2016

• The activities to maintain and develop the SWE Segment will continue in the work plans 2014 and onwards

• Foreseen activities in 2014-2016 will include

Addition of new space weather services

Further enhancement of the SWE ground segment

Maintenance and enhancement of the SSCC

Phase C/D development of selected new SWE sensors with identified hosted payload flight opportunities

Phase B1 of the enhanced space weather monitoring system study

Continuation of the hosted payload flight opportunity assessments for new missions and new instruments


SSA Workplan 2013: SSA contract: P2-COM-III

P2-COM-III: SSA technical support

• Included activities: P2-SWE-601, P2-NEO-601, P2-SST-801

• Technical support for preparation and monitoring of the SWE, NEO and SST

industrial activities in SSA Period 2 including ground segment activities

• Required techical skills:

SWE: system engineering, spaceflight instumentation, space mission

planning, SWE data processing and product generation

NEO: optical engineering

SST: system engineering, SST data processing and product generation

For all segments support for s/w development is included



• Foreseen ITTs: Q2-Q4 2013


SSA Workplan 2013: SSA contract: P2-COM-IV

P2-COM-IV: SSA architectural consolidation

• Included activities: P2-SWE-602, P2-NEO-602, P2-SST-802

• Activity to support ESA in the consolidation of the architectures for all three

segments and the execution of cost versus performances and requirements

trade-offs




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