Environment Information System

Innovative Operations Concepts at ESA/ESOC, Darmstadt

Space Environment Information System for Mission Control Purposes: Benefits for INTEGRAL Operations

A. Baumgartner, SOLENIX GmbHF. Di Marco, VEGA group

M. Pantoquilho, ESA / ESOC A. Donati, ESA / ESOC


Agenda

1. Users needs & space weather impacts

2. System objectives & services3. Users feedback: preliminary results4. Improvements & evolution

Space Environment Information System for Operations, SpaceOps2006, Rome

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IntroductionOPS-HSC Mission Control Technologies

Unit

• Support Mission Operations for future challenges– Increased complexity– Costs reduction

• Investigate advanced technologies to meet operational needs

• Advanced Mission Operations Concepts validation using current missions:Operational Prototypes


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Users Needs

• Space Weather Influence Awareness– Space Weather Events & Effects on Spacecraft

• Hazard Mitigation– From Reactive to Preventive/Predicting Paradigm

• Continuity of Service– Increased Science Return at Acceptable Risk

• Lessons Learnt Cycle– Improvements of Components Performance

• Uniform Access to Events and Effects Data – Development of Behaviour and Prediction

Models


5/20Table Courtesy: L.P. Barbieri / R.E. Mahmot NASA GSFC

Solar Storm 19/10/2003 (source NASA-GSFC)

Space Weather Impacts (1)


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INTEGRAL\payload Start loss of data duration

SPI 2005-09-09 15:38Z ~3 days

IBIS 2005-09-08 07:53Z ~5 days

JEM-X 2005-09-07 17:33Z ~8 days

OMC 2005-09-08 01:35Z ~6 days

Solar Storm 07/09/2005 (source INTEGRAL FCT\ESA)

Space Weather Impacts (2)


Agenda




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SEIS: Objectives

• Increase the awareness of Space Weather Events and interaction with satellite health status

• Deliver a set of multi mission space weather services

• Support the recovery process• Enhance the safety of the satellite


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SEIS: Services

• Near real-time monitoring SEIS Monitoring Tool (MT) Client

• Offline data exploration and correlation analysis SEIS Reporting & Analysis Tool (RAT) Client

• Configurable alarm services SEIS Alarm’s Engine


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Forecasting Module (FM)

Alarm Engine (AE)

External Data Service Providers

Monitoring Tool (MT)

Reporting & Analysis Tool (RAT)Space Weather Data

Space Weather Events

S/C TelemetryData

S/C SEUOccurrences

S/C Orbital Position

Data Processing Module (DPM)

Metadata Module (MM)

Data Integration Module (DIM)

SEIS: Architecture


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SEIS: Tools


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SEIS: Users Feedback

• Operational prototype completed• System under operational validation running

by the INTEGRAL mission• INTEGRAL FCT has been using it increasingly

to: – monitor space weather conditions in real time

Monitoring Tool (MT)– issue weekly radiation reports

Reporting & Analysis Tool (RAT)– analyse solar storms effects on the S/C

Reporting & Analysis Tool (RAT)


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Solar Storm Sept 2005

Date of event:

2005-09-07 17:40Z

Affected revolutions:

354 to 357

Event description:

Returning sunspot 798 unleashed an X17-solar flare on the 7th of September while still on the Eastern limb. During the following week it unleashed 8 more X-class flares and several M-class ones as well.

Period: About 10 days

INTEGRAL X-Ray Monitor(JEM-X)


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• SEIS is a standalone service, in prototype phase

• Reliability and maintainability can improve– as an operational service provided to

multiple missions and to research groups– by prototype consolidation after testing

and validation phase– by Standardization of the data services– by Standardization of the upstream data

(SWENET, web service)

SEIS: Improvements & Evolution (1)


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Improvements & evolution on service:• Forecasting tools under development

– solar flares forecaster – radiation belts dynamics forecaster

• Distributed alarms for Space Weather Events

• Distribution radiation assessment• New/upgraded Space Environment

models (SPENVIS)• Data Mining applications

SEIS: Improvements & Evolution (2)


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SEIS: Users • Current Users:

– INTEGRAL FCT

• Next Users:– ENVISAT FCT– XMM FCT– ESTEC TEC-ESS

• Expected Future Users:– Space Weather

Experts– Scientific

Community– Design Engineers– Other ESA FCTs– Spacecraft

Components Manufacturers


ContactFor more information:

Alessandro Donati, ESA/ESOC, [email protected]

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