SPICE Operations and Scientific Exploitation
Abstract
The SPICE spectrometer will address key science goals of the Solar Orbiter mission, including science questions on the origin of CMEs, the acceleration of energetic particles, and the connectivity to the heliosphere.The SPICE Operations and Scientific Exploitation Team Consortium was selected by ESA in 2016. Support for the operations and scientific exploitation of SPICE is shared between 4 main agencies in Europe (CNES, UKSA, the Norwegian Space Center, and DLR) and NASA in the United States. The lead funding agency is CNES, responsible for providing leadership and coordinating the collective efforts to ensure that the SPICE operations activities are conducted smoothly.The Consortium will operate SPICE and provide operations support to the Solar Orbiter project to fulfill the mission's science objectives, including:
Planning of SPICE operations, in coordination with other Solar Orbiter instruments. Providing ESA with a data processing pipeline for low-latency data, and operating a processing pipeline up to calibrated data products. Maintaining the SPICE instrument, including monitoring and troubleshooting instrument health and safety. Providing software and support to the scientific community to work with SPICE data. We will present the tasks to be performed by the consortium, the consortium team structure and responsibilities, as well as an overview of the capabilities of the instrument and its contributions to the Solar Orbiter science goals.- Publication:
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42nd COSPAR Scientific Assembly
- Pub Date:
- July 2018
- Bibcode:
- 2018cosp...42E.454B