Space environment information system: Applicability for mission design and operations

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Authors
Lawrence, G.
Reid, S.
Kruglanski, M.
Discipline
Physical sciences
Subject
Customer perspectives
Modeling capabilities
Near-Earth environments
Operational support systems
Radiation environments
Solar energetic particles
Space environment information systems
Standalone applications
Information systems
Radiation belts
Radiation effects
Space flight
Spacecraft
Sun
Tools
User interfaces
Earth (planet)
Audience
Scientific
Date
2010Metadata
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ESA's Space Environment Information System (SPENVIS) is a system of models of the space environment and its effects on materials (e.g. spacecraft). It covers the natural radiation belts, solar energetic particles, cosmic rays, plasmas, and micro-particles. SPENVIS currently integrates 35 distinct models, with new ones being added regularly. The underlying models arise from many years of research, supported by national and international space agencies, resulting in a variety of tools to investigate the Sun-Earth connection and near-earth environment. SPENVIS was originally developed as a browserbased research tool that collects these tools together, being capable of recreating the full range of conditions in most of the solar system. In recent years SPENVIS has been further developed into an Operational System. In addition to enhancing the modeling capabilities, this required an enhancement to the customer perspective, i.e. ease-of-use, consistency, stability, runtime, support, etc. SPENVIS is now available as a web-based or standalone application. As a Spacecraft Operational Support System, SPENVIS is further tailored to preferentially reproduce the current radiation environment for a range of common LEO, MEO and GEO orbits, and predict likely future variability and effects via a purpose designed user interface. It will also accept autonomous input data regarding the real-time space environment via a variety of ISES-standard alerts and reports. This paper presents the latest developments, with particular significance for the satellite operations community.
Citation
Lawrence, G.; Reid, S.; Kruglanski, M. (2010). Space environment information system: Applicability for mission design and operations. , SpaceOps 2010 Conference, DOI: 10.2514/6.2010-2187.Identifiers
scopus: 2-s2.0-84880952069
Type
Conference
Peer-Review
No
Language
eng