Intended Procurements in the Space Weather (SWE) Segment SSA Industry Day 11 June 2013, ESOC Juha-Pekka Luntama SSA Space Weather Segment Manager ESA Unclassified Releasable to the Public
SSA/SWE Precursor Service System in 2013 SSA-SWE Users SSA-SWE Service Portal: swe.ssa.esa.int SWE Data Centre Redu, Belgium SWE Service Coordination Centre, Space Pole, Belgium SWE Expert Service Centres Solar Weather Ionospheric Weather Space Radiation Geomagnetic Conditions Heliospheric Weather ROB, Belgium (coord.) Uni. Graz, Austria DLR, Germany (coord.) NMA, Norway NOA, Greece CLS, France BIRA, Belgium (coord.) AIT, Austria UOA, Greece TGO, Norway (coord.) FMI, Finland TBD
SWE Segment objectives in SSA Period 2 1. Networking of available national and European SWE assets (sensors, data centres, service centres, service coordination, user support) 2. Continuation of the preparation of SWE additional services 3. Continuation of the Proba-2 operations and exploitation 4. Implementation of the first flight opportunities for hosted payload SWE instruments and planning for the future HP missions 5. Exploitation of SWE instruments, as well as data and European centres of expertise 6. Study (phase A) of a mission to ensure availability of solar wind, IMF and coronagraph data from L1 7. Studies of mission concepts for enhanced SWE monitoring and forecasting with sensors away from the Sun-Earth line 8. SSA-SWE technologies development
Activities for ITTs P2-SWE-101 SWE ESC Concept and Data Policy Definition P2-SWE-103 Space Weather Service Developments (multi-esc, cross domains) P2-SWE-104 Solar Weather ESC Development P2-SWE-105 Radiation Environment ESC Development P2-SWE-106 Ionospheric Weather ESC Operations and Development P2-SWE-107 Geomagnetic Conditions ESC Development P2-SWE-108 Heliospheric Weather ESC Development P2-SWE-201 SWE Data Centre Operations and Maintenance P2-SWE-204 Testing of SSA SWE services during rocket launch campaigns P2-SWE-208 SSCC Operations and Maintenance P2-SWE-301 Phase C/D development of a magnetometer for solar wind monitoring missions P2-SWE-302 Procurement of recurring NGRM instruments P2-SWE-303 Procurement of recurring plasma instruments for hosted payload missions P2-SWE-307 SWE data agreements P2-SWE-402 Enhanced Space Weather Monitoring System (L1, L5, L4) P2-SWE-403 Implementation of the EDRS hosted payload mission P2-SWE-404 Implementation of HP instruments mission for Galileo spacecraft P2-SWE-601 SWE Segment technical support P2-SWE-602 SWE Segment architecture consolidation
SWE contract: P2-SWE-I P2-SWE-I: ESC Definition and Development Included activities: P2-SWE-101, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 307 Definitions of ESC profiles, roles in support of service providers, SWE data policy, data and product formats, validation and verification, ESC network approach Provision of baseline service content for each thematic domain Identification of critical data items, expansion of the network, new service products, workshops, updates of the roadmaps, service quality Definition of agreements to guarantee availability of critical data Selected domain specific developments and priorities Contract value: ~4600 k Contract duration: 18 months Foreseen ITT: Q2/Q3 2013
SWE contract: P2-SWE-I Some key themes for ESC activities: Development Additional partners broader range of data and products Development of new services: evolution of mature products and data towards presentation as full SWE services Targeted test campaigns with user involvement Service performance metrics ESC Establishment and Coordination Definition of ESC role as thematic centres of expertise Specialist response to technical support requests received by SWE Helpdesk Coordinated network response to major events: SWE alerting and forecast
SWE contract: P2-SWE-I Some domain specific developments and priorities: Solar Weather: data and domain specific alerting, enhancing the nowcast/forecast products including max use of Proba2 data Radiation environment: data, environment analysis tools, services for s/c operators and aviation service development Ionospheric Weather: cross-validation of TEC and scintillation products from European sources Geomagnetic Conditions: expansion of geographic coverage and dedicated effort on services for power grid operators Heliospheric Weather: establishing the ESC to include data, modelling and elaboration of some new services for scientific missions to other planets
SWE contract: P2-SWE-II P2-SWE-II: Space Weather Service Developments Included activities: P2-SWE-103 Development of new, cross-domain services based on SWE CRD and SWE service development roadmaps Focus on new services based on existing building blocks Complementary to service developments within the ESCs Contract value: 600 k Contract duration: 12 months Foreseen ITT: Q4 2013
SWE contract: P2-SWE-III P2-SWE-III: SSA/SWE Data Centre Operations and Maintenance Included activities: P2-SWE-201 Standard operations and maintenance of the SWE Data Centre in Redu Evolutive maintenance for applications and software in the Data Centre Contract value: ~350 k Contract duration: 24 months Foreseen ITT: Q3 2013
SWE contract: P2-SWE-V P2-SWE-V: Testing of SWE services during rocket launch campaigns Included activities: P2-SWE-204 Testing and validation of SWE services for launch operators Baseline testing carried out during sounding rocket launch campaigns (e.g. ICI-4 and ICI-5) Services to be provided during the campaigns include Estimates of space radiation environment Estimates of ionospheric conditions Risk estimates of micro-particle impacts Contract value: ~150 k Contract duration: 18 months Foreseen ITT: Q3 2013
SWE contract: P2-SWE-VI P2-SWE-VI: SSCC Operations and Enhancements Included activities: P2-SWE-208 Monitoring of the quality and availability of the SWE applications and federated services Provision of the end user helpdesk and first level user support Strengthened and pro-active interaction with the end users Collection of user feedback for service roadmap updates in coordination with the ESCs Definition of requirements for SSCC development towards a forecasting centre Contract value: ~400 k Contract duration: 18 months Foreseen ITT: Q3 2013
SWE contract: P2-SWE-VII P2-SWE-VII: Magnetometer for solar monitoring missions Included activities: P2-SWE-301 Phase C/D of a new magnetometer specifically for hosted payload missions Objective is to achieve accurate magnetic field measurements for operational SWE services in a magnetically noisy environment. Prototyping of a suitable instrument has been done e.g. in the SOSMAG GSTP activity Contract value: ~400 k Contract duration: 18 months Foreseen ITT: Q2/Q3 2013
SWE contract: P2-SWE-IX P2-SWE-IX: Galileo HP mission implementation Included activities: P2-SWE-303, P2-SWE-404 Subject to an agreement with the Galileo Programme! Objective is to have SWE instruments in selected second batch Galileo spacecraft Options include Procurement of additional, recurring EMUs Designing of a new instrument matching EMU interface Contract value: 2500 k Contract duration: 24 months Foreseen ITT: Q4 2013
SWE contract: P2-SWE-X P2-SWE-X: Enhanced Space Weather Monitoring System Included activities: P2-SWE-402 First study on the combined L1, L5, L4 monitoring system Two focus areas: Phase A of the L1 mission for solar imaging and solar wind monitoring Phase 0 of the combined SWE monitoring system with observations away from the Sun-Earth line (e.g. L5 or L4) Cost/benefit analysis of the combined SWE monitoring system is part of the activity Contract value: ~400 k Contract duration: 18 months Foreseen ITT: Q2/Q3 2013
SWE contract: P2-SWE-XII P2-SWE-XII: Tailoring SWE services for the Arctic region Included activities: P2-SWE-109 Indentification of the service tailoring needs for the users in the Arctic region Analysis of the gaps and missing assets for the needed services Production of a roadmap for the implementation of the services taking into account the identified SWE ESCs and the services provided by them Contract value: ~95 k Contract duration: 6 months Foreseen ITT: Q2/Q3 2013
SWE Activities in 2014-2016 The activities to maintain and develop the SWE Segment will continue in the work plans 2014 and onwards Foreseen activities in 2014-2016 will include Addition of new space weather services Further enhancement of the SWE ground segment Maintenance and enhancement of the SSCC Phase C/D development of selected new SWE sensors with identified hosted payload flight opportunities Phase B1 of the enhanced space weather monitoring system study Continuation of the hosted payload flight opportunity assessments for new missions and new instruments
SSA Workplan 2013: SSA contract: P2-COM-III P2-COM-III: SSA technical support Included activities: P2-SWE-601, P2-NEO-601, P2-SST-801 Technical support for preparation and monitoring of the SWE, NEO and SST industrial activities in SSA Period 2 including ground segment activities Required techical skills: SWE: system engineering, spaceflight instumentation, space mission planning, SWE data processing and product generation NEO: optical engineering SST: system engineering, SST data processing and product generation For all segments support for s/w development is included Contract value: 2500 k Contract duration: 24 months Foreseen ITTs: Q2-Q4 2013
SSA Workplan 2013: SSA contract: P2-COM-IV P2-COM-IV: SSA architectural consolidation Included activities: P2-SWE-602, P2-NEO-602, P2-SST-802 Activity to support ESA in the consolidation of the architectures for all three segments and the execution of cost versus performances and requirements trade-offs Contract value: 400 k Contract duration: 12 months Foreseen ITT: Q4 2013