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Introduction
| Spacecraft Plasma Interactions Network in Europe (SPINE) | Image of the Day |
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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. |
News
- 12th SPINE Meeting: Announcement and call for papers ESA-ESTEC, 7 February 2008, The Netherlands
- SPIS 3.6 Get the software. SPIS 3.6 includes several modules fully re-written, like the Main Gui Interface and mesh libraries. With respect the previous reference version (3.1), this version presents several deep improvements:
- Several new and improved numerical sub-routines;
- Improved performances of the numerical kernel;
- Improved validation of numerical sub-routines;
- Extended data output from the numerical kernel;
- Improved mesh capability with up to 1.2E6 mesh elements by Gb of memory
- Improved performances of data structure conversions (pre andpost-processing)
- Improved 2D post-processing module
- Improved 3D post-processing module, with Cassandra 2.2 and
- Improved CAD modelling capability
- Improved GUI and script based control capability
- Improved project based data saving capability
- Better User Interface
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SPIS 3.6 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.
Merry Christmas and best regards,
The SPIS team (ONERA & Artenum)
- SPIS course, trainings and examples
The SPINE Community’s Virtual Lab hosts:
- 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 ....)