Dear Colleagues and Friends of the Spacecraft Plasma Interaction Network in Europe !
We are happy to announce that the 32nd SPINE workshop will take place from October 8th until October 10th 2025 at University Carlos Madrid III venue in Madrid, Spain.
The SPINE workshop is a European forum addressing all topics related to spacecraft plasma interactions.
Registration to the workshop and call for contributions (see indico website below) will open on April 1st 2025, and run until August 29th 2025 eob.
We especially encourage contributions in the following areas:
- Electrical propulsion and plumes interaction with spacecraft, modelling and experiments, flight data analysis
- Platform effects on Plasma measurements onboard Scientific missions (JUICE, Bepi Colombo, Solar Orbiter, etc…)
- Lunar Surface charging, dust dynamics effects and interactions with systems in the context of lunar exploration and e.g. Deep Space Gateway
- High Performance computing and application to numerical codes for spacecraft – plasma interactions
Evolution of Internal Charging analyses and models, real time approaches
Modelling chains from data and models to effects
New methods, e.g. ML and AI applied to spacecraft plasma environment data and interactions diagnostics
The forum is fully open and contributions addressing the full range of topics (see below a non-exhaustive complementary list) are welcome!
- Evolution of surface and internal charging environments and standards
- Material properties (measurements, new materials, etc ..)
- Ground and space based experiments for surface and internal charging
- Electric propulsion driven plasma environments, electrical orbit raising
- Innovative numerical methods and approaches for surface and internal charging applications
- Charging of Cubesats, Nanosats, effects on (miniaturised) instrumentation
- Plasma (instrumentation and spacecraft electrostatic cleanliness)
- High power radiofrequency effects such Multipactor and Corona.
- Simulation tools performances, current and future developments, interoperability between tools
We are also collecting ideas / requests for specific topics of interest / trainings, please feel free to express any inputs in the survey included in the event page.
To register and submit your contributions, please use the following link: https://indico.esa.int/event/567/registrations.
Workshop announcement (and timely updates) will also be posted on SPINE website.
Should you have any question, please don’t hesitate to contact us!
Take care and ..Hope to see you in Madrid in October!
Best Regards
The 32nd SPINE organising committee –