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The objective of this network is to share resources and to co-ordinate efforts in all domains related to the interaction of Spacecraft with the space plasma, including spacecraft charging. The creation of this network and its primary objectives have been decided during a Round Table held on 24-2-2000 at ESTEC. The aim of the SPINE Web site is to become an advanced platform for information exchange and collaborative work, a kind of Virtual Laboratory dedicated to studies of spacecraft-plasma interactions. Please use the SPINE Community's Virtual Lab to share and exchange knowledge, data, results and tools related to spacecraft-plasma interactions.
User Registration
To access to the SPIS software, data and other tools of the SPINE community, a user registration to the SPINE community is mandatory.
Please follow the link SPINE Community registration form. Take care that only registrations done through this form will be valid on this platform.
If you have already an account, please go to the Login page.
Password lost ? Please contact us (contact_at_spis.org).
Please follow the link SPINE Community registration form. Take care that only registrations done through this form will be valid on this platform.
If you have already an account, please go to the Login page.
Password lost ? Please contact us (contact_at_spis.org).
Spacecraft Plasma Interactions Network
in Europe (SPINE)
The objective of this network is to share resources and to co-ordinate efforts in all domains related to the interaction of Spacecraft with the space plasma, including spacecraft charging. The creation of this network and its primary objectives have been decided during a Round Table held on 24-2-2000 at ESTEC. The aim of the SPINE Web site is to become an advanced platform for information exchange and collaborative work, a kind of Virtual Laboratory dedicated to studies of spacecraft-plasma interactions. Please use the SPINE Community's Virtual Lab to share and exchange knowledge, data, results and tools related to spacecraft-plasma interactions.
News, events and other links
- New SPINE meeting soon: 27th SPINE meeting: 19th and 20th of February 2020, ESA/ESTEC, The Netherlands
- 16th Spacecraft Charging and Technology Conference, March 30-April 3, 2020, Cocoa Beach, Florida, USA
- All news and events are available HERE
Other links and last releases
- SPIS-5.2.4 released ! The SPINE community is glad to announce the finalisation of the release of SPIS 5.2.4. This release includes several major improvements in both numerical kernel (SPIS-NUM) and IME (SPIS-UI) in the frame of ESA contract 40004107327/12/NL/AK.
- SPIS-5.1.8 released This release includes several major bug fixes and improvements in both numerical kernel (SPIS-NUM) and IME (SPIS-UI).
- SPIS 5.0.1 release candidate: includes modifications resulting from the SPIS-GEO project but also SPIS-Science and AISEPS.
The SPINE Community's Virtual Lab hosts:
The present platform, or SPINE Community's Virtual Lab, gathers a structured set of modelling tools, data and informations related to the modelling and the analysis of spacecraft-plasma interaction and spacecraft charging processes. This includes for instance:- The SPIS Project, for Spacecraft Plasma Interaction System, a software toolkit of 2nd generation for spacecraft-plasma interactions modelling, able to model a large set of phenomenon relative to spacecraft charging and based on a 3D unstructured mesh.
- The PicUp3D Project, the first generation free spacecraft plasma interaction modelling tool.
- Forums and exchange areas for the space plasma communities.
- Specialised working groups on:
- Sheaths modelling
- Artificial plasmas modelling (electric propulsion, etc ....)
- Surface-plasma interactions (secondary emission, photo-emission, conductivities, etc ....)
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Jan 23, 2020 2:53 PM