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Solar System Physics and Space Technology Program at IRF-Kiruna Prof. Stas Barabash

Solar System Physics and Space Technology Program at IRF-Kiruna Prof. Stas Barabash Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Kiruna. Title and definition. Programmet för solsystemets fysik och rymdteknik Solar system physics and space technology program SSPT program at IRF-K The goal:

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Solar System Physics and Space Technology Program at IRF-Kiruna Prof. Stas Barabash

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  1. Solar System Physics and Space Technology Program at IRF-Kiruna Prof. Stas Barabash Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Kiruna

  2. Title and definition Programmet för solsystemets fysik och rymdteknik Solar system physics and space technology program SSPT program at IRF-K The goal: Study the environment and the solar wind interaction as well as the evolution and dynamics of solar system objects with focus on the inner planets, moons, asteroids, comets, and dust. Development of scientific instrumentation for satellite-based measurements in support of space exploration.

  3. Research fields • Space plasma physics • Satellite - borne instrumentation for particle measurements (experimental space plasma physics), hot plasma range (~10 eV - 100 keV….1 MeV) • Data analysis and simulations • Meteor research (presented by Asta) • Ground - based measurement techniques

  4. Scientific topics (satellites) • Comparative magnetospheres How different are plasma environments? • Solar wind and atmospheres How does the interplanetary medium affect planetary atmospheres? • Plasma and neutral gas/dust in space How does different states of matter co-exist? • Plasma and surfaces How does the interplanetary medium affect planetary surfaces?

  5. Head of SSPT program Stas Barabash Head of Technical Group Kjell Lundin Deputy (Science) Mats Holmström Deputy Herman Andersson Mechanical group Jan Johansson Rickard Kumpula Tero Saarijätvi Electrical group Vesa Alatalo Magnus Emanuelsson Jonas Olsen Stefan Karlsson Johan Svensson Lars Wittikko Programmers Hans Borg Leif Kalla Scientists Futaana Yosohifumi Herbert Gunell Rickard Lundin Kazama Youchi Hans Nilsson Asta Pellinen Martin Wieser Yamauchi Masatoshi Ph.D. students Andreas Ekenbäck Sasha Grigoriev Klas Johnsson Ella Karlsson Johan Kero David McCann Csilla Szasz,

  6. Staff • 2 professors (=1.2 FTE) • 8 senior scientists and Post Docs (internally and externally supported) (=6 FTE) • 7 Ph.D. students (all supported by Forskarskolan) • 11 engineers and technicians (= 11 FTE) • 2 Programmers (=2 FTE)

  7. Interactions in the group New!! Simulations Technical group Experiment Data analysis

  8. Thermal vacuum and Solar balance test system Ion /electron calibration system Electronic laboratory Uniqueness of the group • Small, highly competence group of space scientists and engineers working together • From idea via experiment to final results and theory. • Own development, test, calibration, and manufacturing facilities • Flexibility, low cost, shorted development cycles Mechanical workshop

  9. Kiruna-made instruments 1992, TICS, MATE 1988 ASPERA 2002, ASPERA-3 1996 ASPERA-C 1998 IMI 2005 ASPERA-4

  10. Space missions. Overview • Sounding rocket era: 1964 - 1986 • First satellite experiment : ESRO 1A - 3/9 1968 • First interplanetary experiment: Phobos 1 - 7/7 1988 • IRF - Kiruna satellite experiments: • Earth’s magnetosphere: 16 • Mars: 5 • Venus: 1 (2006) • Comets: 2 • Moon: 2 (1 - 2008) • Jupiter / Sun: 1 • Mercury: 2 (2012) • PI instruments on all non-American missions to Mars since 1988.

  11. ESRO 1A Cluster 2 Rosetta ESRO 4 GEOS 1 GEOS 2 Viking Prognoz 8 Phobos 2 Phobos 1 Mars 96 Nozomi Prognoz 7 Interball 2 Munin Freja Smart-1 Cluster 1 Astrid 1 Ulysses Venus Express Mars Express Interball 1 Astrid 2 ESRO 2A Bepi Colombo Chandra-yaan Double Star 1960 2010 1990 1980 2000 1970 History - Future. Road map Earth Planets ?

  12. Current ESA missions (1) Mars Express (ESA) ASPERA-3 (PI), launch May 2003 First combined electron, ion and ENA measurements Venus Express (ESA) ASPERA-4 (PI), launch Nov. 2005 First combined electron, ion and ENA measurements

  13. Current ESA missions (2) Rosetta (ESA) ICA (PI), launch March 2004 Ion measurements at the Chyrumov- Gerasimenko comet SMART-1 (ESA) D-CIXS (Co-I), Sept. 2003 X - ray measurements at the Moon

  14. International cooperation Chandrayaan-1 (ISRO) ENA (Co-PI), Nov. 2007 MMO (ESA / JAXA / ISAS) MPPE/ENA (Co-PI), 2012 Double Star - Polar (ESA / China) NUADU (Co-PI), June 2004

  15. Main scientific subjects

  16. The Grand Tour • Comparative magnetospheric studies: to complete The Grand Tour - Earth, Mars, Venus, Moon, Mercury, Comets • How the environment affects the planet’s evolution Mercury Moon Comets Venus Mars Earth

  17. Comparative magnetospheres

  18. Mars - main stop • Mars research: near - planetary environment impact on the Mars’ atmosphere • Astrobiological aspects: water loss • Implications for the Earth: role of the magnetic field in the atmosphere protection • Space Plasma Physics: multicomponent plasmas, minimagnetosphere (Re << L < Rp)

  19. Venus - the hottest planet in the Solar System • Earth and Venus started as twin - planets. Why are they so different now? • Biggest mystery - reason for the run - away green house effect on Venus. • Unique comparative magnetospheric studies: Mars - Venus

  20. Thrust to the Moon! • Back to the Moon: Solar wind and near Moon environment • Mercury analogue • Plasma - surface interaction, a missed field. • Physics of minimagnetospheres (comapre with Mars!)

  21. Mercury - the smallest magnetosphere

  22. Plans (satellites)

  23. New frontiers and plans. Missions • Aeronomy / space physics mission to Mars (never done before!) • Multi - point magnetospheric missions • Giant planet magnetospheres - an ESA Jupiter mission after 2015.

  24. New frontiers and plans. Instrumentation Space instrumentation of the new millennium: • scientific micro / nanosatellites • miniaturized instrumentation (on-going) • advances ion mass analyzers (increased M/DM) • radically new measurements techniques (e .g. imaging ion /ENA mass spectroscopy, MEMS - micro electromechanical systems) (on-going)

  25. New frontiers and plans. Simulations - data analysis • Hybrid codes (user friendly!) for different environment. Global models of the solar wind - planet interaction • Parallel computing • Applied tasks (instrument / component simulations)

  26. Programmatic implementation • National / bilateral projects coherent with the ESA programs • Small-scale highly focused missions to Mars • ESA missions within Space Science and Aurora programs • New mission proposals: magnetospheric physics: multispacecraft - missions • New experiment proposals: Mars, Moon environment, Jupiter • Experiments through International cooperation: China, Japan, India, Russia • China, India, Russia missions to the Moon and Mars and magnetospheric missions • Nanosatellite projects: Institute level

  27. Space Science Results (student talks to follow!)

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