Advances on Radiation and Plasma Monitoring Workshop

UTC
Newton (Noordwijk)

Newton

Noordwijk

Alessandra Menicucci (ESA/ESTEC)
Description
The workshop on "Advances on Space Radiation and Plasma Environment Monitoring, Data Analysis Methods and Flight Opportunities Workshop" is the forth of a series of workshops proposed under the auspices of the Space Environments and Effects Network of Technical Competences established to further cooperation in Europe. The number of flying or ready to fly European radiation and plasma instruments has increased significantly since the last SEENoTC workshop on the subject in 2008 and a round-table at CNES in 2009. Research programmes have also made good progresses in investigating innovative technologies and new concepts designs which will allow a substantial reduction of mass, power and data rate budgets compared to traditional instrumentation, whilst providing equivalent or higher detection efficiency. With many future missions in Navigation, Telecommunications, Exploration, Science, GMES domains flying in severe radiation environments and carrying highly sensitive components and systems, the need for such radiation instrumentation is increasing. Accurate measurements of the Space Environment plays also a crucial role in improvement of radiation enviroment models and the development of the space weather services required by the Space Situational Awareness programme. The intention of this workshop is to provide a venue for discussing the latest developments on space plasma and radiation environments and effects instrumentation, to examine possible flight opportunities for such instruments, and to establish the necessary technical and management steps necessary to ensure collaboration on future data analyses, databases, data sharing, and lessons learned from flight experience. It will also allow further discussion and capture of explicit experiment needs and further the harmonization of cooperation on instrument development, flight plans and data exploitation.
  • Wednesday, 26 June
    • 13:30 14:30
      Registration 1h
    • 14:30 15:00
      Introduction 30m
      Speaker: Dr Alessandra Menicucci (ESA/ESTEC)
    • 15:00 15:20
      Flight opportunities for Radiation and Plasma Monitors within the SSA programme 20m
      Speaker: Alain Hilgers (ESA/ESTEC)
    • 15:25 15:45
      Appreciating radiation environment In-situ data 20m
      Speaker: Hugh Evans (ESA/ESTEC)
    • 15:45 16:05
      Break 20m
    • 16:05 16:25
      Unfolding measurements of ESA SREM units 20m
      Speaker: Ingmar Sandberg
    • 16:25 16:45
      Calibration of SREM 20m
      Speaker: Laurent Desorgher (SpaceIT)
    • 16:45 17:05
      Current hardware developments at IRAP and CNES for thermal plasma measurements 20m
      Speaker: Benoit Lavraud (IRAP/CNRS/Université de Toulouse)
    • 17:05 17:25
      Low resource sensor systems for studies of the space plasma and radiation environment 20m
      Speaker: Dhiren Kataria (Mullard Space Science Laboratory, University College London)
    • 17:25 18:00
      Discussion 35m
    • 18:00 19:30
      Welcome Cocktail 1h 30m
    • 09:30 09:50
      Development of the Next Generation Radiation Monitor NGRM 20m
      Speaker: Dr Wojtek Hajdas (Paul Scherrer Institute)
    • 09:50 10:10
      Design of the Highly Miniaturised Radiation Monitor 20m
      Speaker: Dr Douglas Griffin (RAL Space)
    • 10:10 10:30
      Modelling of the Highly Miniaturised Radiation Monitor for space applications 20m
      Speaker: Mr Edward Mitchell (Imperial College London)
    • 10:30 10:50
      The Energetic Particle Telescope (EPT) functional validation 20m
      Speaker: Dr Matthias Cyamukungu (Université Catholique de Louvain)
    • 10:50 11:10
      Coffee Break 20m
    • 11:10 11:30
      EFACEC Radiation Monitors for Space Applications – MFS & BERM 20m
      Speaker: Mr Arlindo Marques (Efacec)
    • 11:30 11:50
      Preliminary Characterization of RADFETs for the ESA ALPHASAT CTTB: response at high and low dose rates, from 25ºC to 80ºC 20m
      Speaker: Mrs Patricia Goncalves (LIP)
    • 11:50 12:10
      Radiation Hard Electron Monitor (RADEM) 20m
      Speaker: Dr Wojtek Hajdas (Paul Scherrer Institute)
    • 12:10 12:30
      CMOS Active Pixel Sensors for space radiation monitoring 20m
      Speaker: Dr Renato Turchetta (STFC)
    • 12:30 12:50
      PilsenCUBE RadEx - a radiation Experiment on-board a CubeSat, focused on total dose Effects on precise analogue and mixed-Sign 20m
      Speaker: Mr Jiri Hofman (Synergy Health)
    • 12:50 13:10
      The Hungarian CoCoRAD Stratospheric Cosmic Radiation Experiment in the BEXUS Program of the ESA 20m
      Speaker: Mr Balázs Zábori (Budapest University of Technology and Economics)
    • 13:10 14:10
      Lunch break 1h
    • 14:10 14:30
      Radiation Measurements on board the International Space Station - Overview of current and future Experiments 20m
      Speaker: Dr Thomas Berger (German Aerospace Center)
    • 14:30 14:50
      3D Survey of the radiation Environment in the ISS-USLab with the ALTEA Detector 20m
      Speaker: Prof. Livio Narici (University of Rome Tor Vergata)
    • 14:50 15:10
      Operational radiation protection and personal dosimetry for the European astronauts- Current status and future activities of ESA 20m
      Speaker: Dr Ulrich Straube (ESA)
    • 15:10 15:30
      Total and partial fragmentation Cross-Section of 500 MeV/nucleon carbon Ions on different target Materials 20m
      Speaker: Dr Francesco Di Capua (MapRAD)
    • 15:30 15:50
      Lightweight Observatory for Radiation Environment (LORE) 20m
      Speaker: Prof. Livio Narici (University of Rome Tor Vergata)
    • 15:50 16:05
      Geant4 high-accuracy simulations of the ISS radiation environment and comparison to astronaut dosimetry 15m
      Speaker: Mr Marc-Andre Chavy-Macdonald (ESA/ESTEC)
    • 16:05 16:15
      Coffee break 10m
    • 16:15 16:35
      Discussion and conclusion remarks 20m