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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
- 18th SPINE Meeting: 2012 Winter School, will be take the 7th of March at ESA/ESTEC, The Netherlands: In the frame of this SPINE meeting, a SPIS Training Course will proposed. See the expression of interest and the preliminary program for further information. Up to two sessions (depending of the number of interested peoples) way be organised at the following dates:
- Session 1: 5th-6th of March 2012
- Session 2: 8th-9th of March 2012
Past events and other links
- The previous SPINE meeting has taken place on 17-19 January 2011, Uppsala University, Uppsala Sweden:
17th SPINE meeting - Computational tools for electrostatic cleanliness and space instrument accommodation analysis. Proceedings of the meeting are available here: Attendees Data, talks and presentations. - SPIS 4.0.00 released: SPIS 4.0.00 RC1 is provided with a detailed documentation (User and Developer) and new example project 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.
- 12th SPINE Meeting: Announcement and call for papers ESA-ESTEC, 7 February 2008, The Netherlands
- SPIS 3.6 released! Get the software.
- SPIS course, trainings and examples
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:- 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 ....)