SPINE in brief | Objectives | Members

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 and Events and other links

• 19-21 March 2013, 19th SPINE meeting, SPIS Studies Final Presentations and SPIS training, ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands: 19th SPINE Meeting, SPIS Final Presentations & SPIS training
• Servers mainenance

Dear SPINE's members,

Due to the increasing load on the SPIS servers, we are going to perform a maintenance operation tomorrow Friday 15th of February, starting at 14:00.

This means that the site should be down and forbid the software download during the maintenance operation. Moreover for the SPIS developpers, the SVN repository should also be unavailable during that period. This means you will not be able to either update or commit source code to the site.

Sorry for the disturbences,

Kind regards,

The Artenum team for the SPINE community.

• Meeting
• News and Events

Other links

• SPIS 5.0.1 release candidate: includes modifications resulting from the SPIS-GEO project but also SPIS-Science and AISEPS.

It 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.

• 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.

SPIS' initial development has been funded by ESA R&D TRP programme and is freely available under GPL licence.

• 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 ....)

This web site is hosted by Artenum and based on the LibreSource Enterprise Edition.

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