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Volker Liebig (H/ESRIN, D-EOP) Gunther Kohlhammer

Introduction to ESRIN ESA Centre for Earth Observation Alliance for Permanent Access Conference 2012. Volker Liebig (H/ESRIN, D-EOP) Gunther Kohlhammer Head of Earth Observation Ground Segment & Mission Operations Department 06 November 2012. www.esa.int/esrin.

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Volker Liebig (H/ESRIN, D-EOP) Gunther Kohlhammer

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  1. Introduction to ESRIN ESA Centre for Earth Observation Alliance for Permanent Access Conference 2012 Volker Liebig (H/ESRIN, D-EOP) Gunther Kohlhammer Head of Earth Observation Ground Segment & Mission Operations Department 06 November 2012 www.esa.int/esrin

  2. Goal: “To provide for and promote, for exclusively peaceful purposes, cooperation among European states in space research and technology and their space applications.” Over 40 years of experience 19 Member States Five establishments in Europe, about 2200 staff 4 billion Euro budget (2012) Over 70 satellites designed, tested and operated in flight 17 scientific satellites in operation Celebrated the 200th launch of Ariane in February 2011 ESA FACTS AND FIGURES

  3. ESA has 19 Member States: 17 states of the EU (AT, BE, CZ, DE, DK, ES, FI, FR, IT, GR, IE, LU, NL, PT, RO, SE, UK) plus Norway and Switzerland. Eight other EU states have Cooperation Agreements with ESA: Estonia, Slovenia, Poland, Hungary, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania and the Slovak Republic. Bulgaria and Malta are negotiating Cooperation Agreements. Canada takes part in some programmes under a Cooperation Agreement. 19 MEMBER STATES AND GROWING

  4. Space science Human spaceflight Exploration Earth observation Launchers ACTIVITIES ESA is one of the few space agencies in the world to combine responsibility in nearlyall areas of space activity. • Navigation • Telecommunications • Technology • Operations

  5. ESA’S LOCATIONS EAC (Cologne) ESTEC (Noordwijk) Salmijaervi (Kiruna) Harwell ESOC (Darmstadt) Brussels ESA HQ (Paris) ESA sites/facilities Redu Toulouse Offices Oberpfaffenhofen Cebreros, Villafranca ESA ground stations ESAC (Madrid) ESRIN (Rome) Moscow Santa Maria Washington Kourou Maspalomas Houston New Norcia Perth Malargüe

  6. Rome and ESRIN Envisat ASAR image, August 2003

  7. The ESRIN Establishment Personnel on site (Oct 2012): 617 • + 60 international conferences, 36.000 visitors per year • 221 ESA staff (including YGT, fellows and trainees) • 396 contractors • Earth Observation • Vega Department • Corporate Informatics • Telecommunications • Contracts, Site, Personnel, Communication • ASI Science Data Centre • ESA Security Office

  8. Earth Observation in ESRIN Earth Observation functions in ESRIN • EO Payload Operation Management Centre • Multi-mission Ground Segment management • Earth science & application development • GMES Space Office • Charter management • Earthnet activities management • CEOS and GEO activities • EO User Helpdesk

  9. ESA & TPM Satellite Flight Control Centres 10 Processing and Archiving Facilities + small thematic archives • Centralised Functions • Development, Management and Maintenance of a distributed Ground Segment • User Services • Multi-mission Mission Planning • Instrument Performance Monitoring, Product Development & QC • Exploitation Development and Management • Technology DevelopmentStandardisation and Technology Transfer • Mission Management, Data Policy 10 National Ground Stations 28 Foreign Stations worldwide 200 VAC and Service Companies 11000 Science Users GMES Services ESA ESRIN Control Centre for Distributed Facilities 25 Expert Support Laboratories ECMWF & Meteorological Network Ground & Satellite Data Dissemination Networks and Data Flow

  10. 4 EO missions in operation 5 more currently operated by Eumetsat 3 historical ESA missions + 30 partner missions for which data are disseminated to European users +3800 user projects worldwide– increasing further More than 100 Terabytes/yr of data Increase by a factor of 40 in the coming years In Orbit today: ESA Earth Observation satellites Preservation of Space derived data has become an important Issus for ESA even at the level of CMIN 2012

  11. Satellites for emergency relief The International Charter on Space and Major Disasters - > Data acquisition in case of natural or human-made disasters - > Data delivery to civil protection agencies, emergency & rescue services Examples of activations: • Haiti earthquake 2010 • Japan earthquake / tsunami 2011 • Fires in Chile (Patagonia) 2011 • Feugo Volcano in Guatemala 2012 • Darfur Crisis 2004 • Tsunami Catastrophe 2004/2005 • Hurricane Katrina 2005 • Sichuan Earthquake 2008

  12. VEGA Small launcher programme • ESRIN is the management centre for the VEGA small launcher programme • VEGA is able to place up to 2000-kg satellites into polar and low-Earth orbits • First VEGA qualification flight successful on 13 February 2012

  13. Information Systems Informatics ESRIN is the Host centre of ESA’s Information Systems: • Corporate Business Applications • Corporate Information Technology Infrastructure ESA’s Information Systems Department ensures that ESA runs smoothly.

  14. Further ESRIN Activities • Virtual Reality Theatre • European Centre for Space Records • Telecommunication Multimedia Infrastructure • ESRIN Telecom Lab • ESA Broadcast Service via Web • Incubators (agreement ESA – BIC Lazio) • ESA Web Portal

  15. Alliance for Permanent Access Conference 2012 Welcome to ESA and ESRIN Have a good Conference

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