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ESA Support to SOLAR-B

ESA Support to SOLAR-B. Hermann J. Opgenoorth Solar and Solar Terrestrial Missions Division ESA Science Directorate. Programmatic Framework Downlink Data Center. International Living With a Star Some Candidate Missions. Ulysses.

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ESA Support to SOLAR-B

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  1. ESA Support to SOLAR-B Hermann J. Opgenoorth Solar and Solar Terrestrial Missions Division ESA Science Directorate • Programmatic Framework • Downlink • Data Center

  2. International Living With a StarSome Candidate Missions Ulysses Distributed network of spacecraft providing observations of Sun-Earth system. STEREO STEREO Solar Sentinel Solar Orbiter Coronas-Photon Kua-FU Enhanced Polar Outflow Probe MagCon Solar-B Geostorm (Sub L1) GB GEC, IT-SP & Swarm Solar Sentinel BepiColombo Solar Dynamics Observatory SDO MMS PICARD STEREO • Solar-Heliospheric Network observing Sun & tracking disturbances from Sun to Earth. • Geospace Mission Network with constellations of smallsats in key regions of geospace.

  3. ILWS-Related Missions SOHO SDO SOLAR TRACE SOLAR-B ACRIMSAT/SORCE CORONAS-F CORONAS-PHOTON RHESSI PICARD SST ULYSSES Earthshine WIND Solar on ISS ACE SMEI STEREO SOLAR ORBITER L5 HELIOSPHERIC INTERHELIOPROBE SOLAR SENTINELS GEOSTORM MESSENGER BEPI-COLOMBO GEOTAIL INTERBALL/PROGNOZ SAMPEX APEX/Maxwell POLAR RAVENS ROY? FAST ORBITALS MAGNETOSPHERIC IMAGE SCOPE TWINS FUV IMAGER CLUSTER MMS DOUBLE STAR RBSP THEMIS Kua-Fu LANL/GOES/HEO TIMED SWARM C/NOFS AIM I-TSP COSMIC ROCSAT-2 EPOP IONOSPHERIC EQUARS INDEX VULKAN DMSP/POES NPOESS GPS Solar Max Solar Max Solar Max Year 92 94 96 98 00 02 04 06 08 10 12 14 16 18 3

  4. 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 ILWS framework by providing additional downlink support from a high-latitude station. • Goal: to increase the overall volume, availability and cadence of science data from the Solar-B mission, for the benefit of the international solar science community both in Europe and world-wide

  5. ESA Ground-Support for Solar-B • We chose to use KSAT on Svalbard instead of the ESA facility in Kiruna, which is already successfully employed for Astro-F

  6. ESA Ground-Support for Solar-B • Reasons: Antenna redundancy, possibility to track all 15 orbits every day and Norwegian interest in the mission.

  7. Norwegian Involvment 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

  8. Details of ESA/Norway Contract (1) 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

  9. Details of ESA Norway Contract (2) 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 and s/w to satisfy user needs as defined by the Solar-B Science Management Plan (TBC). • Distribution of data to European users • Preparation of final archive for one year after mission completion

  10. European Connectivity

  11. 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 …rise and shine Solar-B !

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