Conveners
Plasma Instrument and data exploitation: PLAS-1
- Sebastien Bourdarie (ONERA)
- Gregoire Deprez (ESA)
Plasma Instrument and data exploitation: PLAS-2
- Sebastien Bourdarie (ONERA)
- Gregoire Deprez (ESA)
ESA’s Space Safety & Security activities are aimed at monitoring and mitigating the impact of space hazards to critical infrastructure. One of the cornerstones of these activities is development of a Space Weather monitoring system. A significant undertaking towards this is a mission to the L5 Sun-Earth Lagrange point. A complement of remote-sensing instruments and a suite of in-situ...
Results from an ongoing evaluation of the utility of an Electrostatic Analyser to investigate surface charging conditions at GEO will be presented, including an initial correlation with data from a LANL MPA sensor and a simple surface charging sensor. Use of this and similar sensors to investigate in-orbit spacecraft anomalies will be discussed.
The Sweeping Langmuir Probe (SLP) instrument on board the Pico-Satellite for Atmospheric and Space Science Observations (PICASSO) has been developed at the Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy. PICASSO, an ESA in-orbit demonstrator launched in September 2020, is a triple unit CubeSat flying at about 540 km altitude with 97 degrees inclination.
The SLP instrument includes four...
The instrument for SensIng electroMagnetic pulses on Cubesat (CubeSIM), currently in phase B at ONERA in the frame of the internal ONSAT-1 research project, aims to detect and measure the effects of electrostatic discharges induced by the plasma environment. The first mission envisioned to fly this instrument in SSO LEO orbit is called ChaRging On CubeSat (CROCUS). The targeted platform is a...
