Session Smallsat, hosted payloads and piggyback missions for monitoring the space environment au ESSW 2023

Annonce transmise par Mathieu Barthelemy (IPAG)

Dear colleagues

Please consider submitting an abstract in the following session of the ESWW (Deadline June 29th for oral presentations): Smallsat, hosted payloads and piggyback missions for monitoring the space environment.

Abstract: New Space philosophy, which is underpinned by novel and innovative satellite development concepts, has generated keen interest. It is therefore a timely opportunity for hosting space weather instruments and for dedicating smallsat missions (from Cubesats to Nanosats) to space weather monitoring. These new developments enable innovative architectures and opportunities for new actors, towards provision of extensive space weather data. The relatively low cost of these satellites, as well as their simplified instrument-to-platform interfacing, allows the possibility of launching large constellations of complementary space weather instruments and of performing multi-point measurements. Subsequently, these new mission architectures generate new data models and policy, as highlighted by the D3S missions from ESA and by the SPIRE constellation. This current popularity, along with increasing solar activity and the resulting enhanced risk of onboard anomalies, raises the question as to how to further advance space weather monitoring and awareness, to the next level. We propose in this session to address these questions at system, data and payload levels, and to encourage discussion on potential future benefits to space weather monitoring through the use of smallsats. We will especially address funding mechanisms and business development plans for current projects by agencies, academia and industry, and also for potential future collaborations between different spaceborne actors.

The submission link is: https://esww2023.org/submit-an-abstract

Regards

Jaan Praks, Vincent Maget and Mathieu Barthélemy