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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

  • The next SPINE meeting will take place on 23th March 2010 09:00 - 18:00, Room B0154, ESA HQ, 8-10 rue Mario Nikis, 75015 Paris, France. In the morning there will be contributed papers on recent results, new ideas and planned R&D activities. In the afternoon a round table on requirements for new R&D activities is planned covering surface-plasma and deep-dielectric charging.
  • Proceedings of the 15th SPINE MEETING -28/29 September 2009, ONERA, Toulouse, France are available.
  • SPIS 4.0.00 released ! Change log and major improvements (2009/10/17)
    • Major numerical improvements in SPIS-NUM are:
      • Implicit solver for spacecraft solver with automatic time step adjustment
      • Capability to model charging in GEO (implicit circuit solver, backtracking...)
      • Muti-zone modelling (one dense region with hybrid PIC-Boltzmann modelling, one lower density "beam-like" region with PIC-PIC modelling)
      • A few other smaller improvements: exact Csat computation (instead of being user-defined), Dirchlet conditions possible at external boundary, beta factor for Fowler-Nordheim emission, possibility to introduce generic surface interactors (with a basic cathode spot implemented), scenarios like potential sweeping (already in v3.7)...
    • Major SPIS-UI improvements:
      • Full migration to VTK 5.0
      • Full migration to JVM 1.6
      • Full migration to Jython 2.2
      • Migration to Gmsh 2.xxx (since SPIS 3.7 RC9)
      • Introduction of an export module of DataField to raw based ASCII formats. This contribution has been funded by the LATMOS UVSQ-CNRS/INSU-UPMC laboratory, France and has been supervised by Jean-Jacques Berthelier. We would like thanks Richard Marchand of University of Alberta for his advices.
      • Introduction of JyConsole 1.4
      • Update and improvement of launching scripts.
      • Modularisation of components being run as standalone application as well SPIS-UI tasks.
      • Improvement of the self-consistency of the persistence scheme (saving the mesh from the memory foot-print)
      • Improvement of the portability (Mac OSX, Linux full support of 32/64 bits)
      • Improvement of ASCII export for time series data
      • Improvement / bug fixes in the bacth simulation deamon writer
      • Several bugs fixes
      • Several performances improvements
      • Documentation update
      • Various code clean-up
      • …
The release also comes with two new examples (projects) of spacecraft charging in GEO. We thank Bjarne Andersson (SSC) and Simon Clucas (ESA/ESTEC) who supplied them.

SPIS 4.0.00 RC1 is provided with a detailed documentation (User and Developer) in order to facilitate its use and reduce the learning curve. Please see the SPINE’s collaborative platform (http://www.spis.org) and the relative forums (http://dev.spis.org/projects/spine/home/community/forumsPages/spis).

For access to the software, please see the download area.

Past events and other links

The SPINE Community’s Virtual Lab hosts:

The present platform, or SPINE Community’s Virtual Lab, gathers a structured set of modeling tools, data and informations related to the modelling and the analysis of spacecraft-plasma interaction and spacecraft charging processes. This includes for instance: SPIS' initial development has been funded by ESA R&D TRP programme and is freely available under GPL licence. This web site is hosted by Artenum and based on the LibreSource Enterprise Edition.
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