scholarly journals WebWorldWind, achievements and future of the ESA-NASA partnership

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yann Voumard ◽  
Paulo Sacramento ◽  
Pier Giorgio Marchetti ◽  
Patrick Hogan
Keyword(s):  
European Space Agency ◽  
Use Cases ◽  
First Year ◽  
Virtual Globe ◽  
Space Agency ◽  
Research And Education

Web World Wind is a 3D virtual globe API for HTML5 and JavaScript developed by NASA with support of the European Space Agency (ESA) and other partners. In this paper, the results of the first year for the on-going collaboration between ESA and NASA on Web World Wind development are presented, highlighting concrete examples built with the newly introduced features and putting them in relation to possible research and education use cases. Finally, the next steps and roadmap are briefly introduced.

scholarly journals WebWorldWind, achievements and future of the ESA-NASA partnership

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yann Voumard ◽  
Paulo Sacramento ◽  
Pier Giorgio Marchetti ◽  
Patrick Hogan
Keyword(s):  
European Space Agency ◽  
Use Cases ◽  
First Year ◽  
Virtual Globe ◽  
Space Agency ◽  
Research And Education

Web World Wind is a 3D virtual globe API for HTML5 and JavaScript developed by NASA with support of the European Space Agency (ESA) and other partners. In this paper, Web World Wind is compared to other virtual globe technologies and the results of the first year for the on-going collaboration between ESA and NASA on Web World Wind development are presented. Concrete examples built with the newly introduced features are highlighted and put in relation to possible research and education use cases. Finally, the next steps and roadmap are briefly introduced.

scholarly journals WebWorldWind, achievements and future of the ESA-NASA partnership

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yann Voumard ◽  
Paulo Sacramento ◽  
Pier Giorgio Marchetti ◽  
Patrick Hogan
Keyword(s):  
European Space Agency ◽  
Use Cases ◽  
First Year ◽  
Virtual Globe ◽  
Space Agency ◽  
Research And Education

Web World Wind is a 3D virtual globe API for HTML5 and JavaScript developed by NASA with support of the European Space Agency (ESA) and other partners. In this paper, Web World Wind is compared to other virtual globe technologies and the results of the first year for the on-going collaboration between ESA and NASA on Web World Wind development are presented. Concrete examples built with the newly introduced features are highlighted and put in relation to possible research and education use cases. Finally, the next steps and roadmap are briefly introduced.

scholarly journals SPACE-BASED APPLICATIONS FOR BUILT CULTURAL HERITAGE: EXPERIENCE OF COPERNICUS4REGIONS PUBLICATION

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Branka Cuca ◽  
Raffaella Brumana
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
European Commission ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
European Space Agency ◽  
Earth Observation ◽  
Use Cases ◽  
Regional Context ◽  
Specific Focus ◽  
Space Agency

NEREUS is a Network of Regions Using Space Technologies established in Brussels in 2007. The need of this network emerged out of conviction that the regions are the key users and procurers of space-based applications, products and services. Since more than decade, the mission of the Network has been to raise awareness of the benefits that space technologies can offer to the citizens, especially in a regional context, for public services and public policies. Within this framework, and with support by the European Commission and European Space Agency, NEREUS has developed several publications that have promoted different Earth Observation applications such as "The growing uses of Copernicus across Europe’s Regions" (2012) and the latest one "The Ever Growing Use of Copernicus across Europe’s Regions" (2018). Politecnico di Milano was in charge of Publication management of this last use-cases collection. The paper here presented illustrates and discusses the result of the Publication with a specific focus on applications regarding use of Earth Observation and Copernicus Programme for Cultural Heritage.

scholarly journals NASA WorldWind: virtual globe for an open smart city

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria A Brovelli ◽  
Candan E Kilsedar ◽  
Patrick J Hogan ◽  
Gabriele Prestifilippo ◽  
Giorgo Zamboni
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
European Space Agency ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Interesting Application ◽  
Virtual Globe ◽  
Web Framework ◽  
Space Agency ◽  
Open Source Framework ◽  
The Web

In this paper, we first present the open source framework NASA WorldWind. NASA WorldWind comes with two versions. The Java version is well established in the market and has many customers. There is now a new Web version, Web WorldWind, with many of the same features implemented and is already being used by government agencies, the European Space Agency having standardized on it. We describe here some of the features available in the Web framework. Additionally, we show an interesting application developed with NASA WorldWind and the possibilities it offers in the field of smart cities. Moreover, we illustrate some of the opportunities that this framework provides and the direction the community of people interested in open source for smart cities are following.

BepiColombo – Status and first Results from Activities during Cruise and the Earth flyby

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johannes Benkhoff ◽  
Joe Zender ◽  
Go Murakami
Keyword(s):  
State Of The Art ◽  
European Space Agency ◽  
Terrestrial Planet ◽  
First Year ◽  
Joint Project ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Space Agency ◽  
First Results ◽  
French Guyana ◽  
The Individual

<p>Mercury is a mysterious planet in many ways very different from what scientist were expecting. BepiColombo was launched on 20 October 2018 the BepiColombo from the European spaceport in French Guyana and is now on route to Mercury to unveil Mercury’s secrets. BepiColombo with its state of the art and very comprehensive payload will perform measurements to increase our knowledge on the fundamental questions about Mercury’s evolution, composition, interior, magnetosphere, and exosphere. BepiColombo is a joint project between the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and consists of two orbiters, the Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO) and the Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter (Mio). </p><p>The BepiColombo spacecraft is during its 7-year long journey to the innermost terrestrial planet in a so-called ‘stacked’ configuration: The Mio and the MPO are connected to each other, and stacked on-top of the Mercury Transfer Module (MTM). Only in late 2025, the ‘stack’ configuration is abandoned and the individual elements spacecraft are brought in to their final Mercury orbit: 480x1500km for MPO, and 590x11640km for Mio. The foreseen orbits of the MPO and Mio will allow close encounters of the two spacecraft throughout the mission. The mission has been named in honor of Giuseppe (Bepi) Colombo (1920–1984), who was a brilliant Italian mathematician, who made many significant contributions to planetary research and celestial mechanics.</p><p>On its way BepiColombo has several opportunities for scientific observations - during the cruise into the inner solar system and during nine flybys (one at Earth, two at Venus and six at Mercury). However, since the spacecraft is in a stacked configuration during the flybys only some of the   instruments on both spacecraft will perform scientific observations. In early April of 2020 BepiColombo will flyby Earth and later in October the first Venus flyby will follow.</p><p>A status of the mission and instruments and first results of measurements taken during the Earth flyby and the first year in cruise will be given.</p>

Microwave technology developments in the European Space Agency

1984 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. GIBSON ◽  
D. MADDEN ◽  
P. MONIER
Keyword(s):  
European Space Agency ◽  
Microwave Technology ◽  
Space Agency

scholarly journals Detailed Modeling of Cork-Phenolic Ablators in Preparation for the Post-flight Analysis of the QARMAN Re-entry CubeSat

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudio Miccoli ◽  
Alessandro Turchi ◽  
Pierre Schrooyen ◽  
Domenic D’Ambrosio ◽  
Thierry Magin
Keyword(s):  
Fluid Dynamics ◽  
Thermal Protection ◽  
A Priori ◽  
European Space Agency ◽  
Thermal Response ◽  
Accurate Method ◽  
Navier Stokes ◽  
Advection Equation ◽  
High Enthalpy ◽  
Space Agency

AbstractThis work deals with the analysis of the cork P50, an ablative thermal protection material (TPM) used for the heat shield of the qarman Re-entry CubeSat. Developed for the European Space Agency (ESA) at the von Karman Institute (VKI) for Fluid Dynamics, qarman is a scientific demonstrator for Aerothermodynamic Research. The ability to model and predict the atypical behavior of the new cork-based materials is considered a critical research topic. Therefore, this work is motivated by the need to develop a numerical model able to respond to this demand, in preparation to the post-flight analysis of qarman. This study is focused on the main thermal response phenomena of the cork P50: pyrolysis and swelling. Pyrolysis was analyzed by means of the multi-physics Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) code argo, developed at Cenaero. Based on a unified flow-material solver, the Volume Averaged Navier–Stokes (VANS) equations were numerically solved to describe the interaction between a multi-species high enthalpy flow and a reactive porous medium, by means of a high-order Discontinuous Galerkin Method (DGM). Specifically, an accurate method to compute the pyrolysis production rate was implemented. The modeling of swelling was the most ambitious task, requiring the development of a physical model accounting for this phenomenon, for the purpose of a future implementation within argo. A 1D model was proposed, mainly based on an a priori assumption on the swelling velocity and the resolution of a nonlinear advection equation, by means of a Finite Difference Method (FDM). Once developed, the model was successfully tested through a matlab code, showing that the approach is promising and thus opening the way to further developments.

scholarly journals Applicability of NGGM near-real time simulations in flood detection

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-126
Author(s):  
A. F. Purkhauser ◽  
J. A. Koch ◽  
R. Pail
Keyword(s):  
European Space Agency ◽  
Earth System ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Future Mission ◽  
Space Agency ◽  
Flood Detection ◽  
The One ◽  
Real Time Simulations ◽  
Grace Mission ◽  
Gravity Mission

Abstract The GRACE mission has demonstrated a tremendous potential for observing mass changes in the Earth system from space for climate research and the observation of climate change. Future mission should on the one hand extend the already existing time series and also provide higher spatial and temporal resolution that is required to fulfil all needs placed on a future mission. To analyse the applicability of such a Next Generation Gravity Mission (NGGM) concept regarding hydrological applications, two GRACE-FO-type pairs in Bender formation are analysed. The numerical closed loop simulations with a realistic noise assumption are based on the short arc approach and make use of the Wiese approach, enabling a self-de-aliasing of high-frequency atmospheric and oceanic signals, and a NRT approach for a short latency. Numerical simulations for future gravity mission concepts are based on geophysical models, representing the time-variable gravity field. First tests regarding the usability of the hydrology component contained in the Earth System Model (ESM) by the European Space Agency (ESA) for the analysis regarding a possible flood monitoring and detection showed a clear signal in a third of the analysed flood cases. Our analysis of selected cases found that detection of floods was clearly possible with the reconstructed AOHIS/HIS signal in 20% of the tested examples, while in 40% of the cases a peak was visible but not clearly recognisable.

scholarly journals Prisma: A New Space Mission For Stellar Physics

1993 ◽  
Vol 137 ◽  
pp. 812-819
Author(s):  
T. Appourchaux ◽  
D. Gough ◽  
P. Hyoyng ◽  
C. Catala ◽  
S. Frandsen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
European Space Agency ◽  
Real Space ◽  
Space Mission ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Space Agency ◽  
New Space

PRISMA (Probing Rotation and Interior of Stars: Microvariability and Activity) is a new space mission of the European Space Agency. PRISMA is currently in a Phase A study with 3 other competitors. PRISMA is the only ESA-only mission amongst those four and only one mission will be selected in Spring 1993 to become a real space mission.The goal of the Phase A study is to determine whether the payload of PRISMA can be accommodated on a second unit of the X-ray Multi-Mirror (XMM) bus; and whether the budget of the PRISMA mission can be kept below 265 MAU (’88 Economic conditions). The XMM mission is an approved cornerstone and is in a Phase A together with PRISMA.

scholarly journals BepiColombo Science Investigations During Cruise and Flybys at the Earth, Venus and Mercury

2021 ◽  
Vol 217 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Valeria Mangano ◽  
Melinda Dósa ◽  
Markus Fränz ◽  
Anna Milillo ◽  
Joana S. Oliveira ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
French Guiana ◽  
European Space Agency ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Space Agency ◽  
Spacecraft Mission ◽  
Joint Mission ◽  
Science Investigations ◽  
Orbit Insertion ◽  
Inner Heliosphere

AbstractThe dual spacecraft mission BepiColombo is the first joint mission between the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) to explore the planet Mercury. BepiColombo was launched from Kourou (French Guiana) on October 20th, 2018, in its packed configuration including two spacecraft, a transfer module, and a sunshield. BepiColombo cruise trajectory is a long journey into the inner heliosphere, and it includes one flyby of the Earth (in April 2020), two of Venus (in October 2020 and August 2021), and six of Mercury (starting from 2021), before orbit insertion in December 2025. A big part of the mission instruments will be fully operational during the mission cruise phase, allowing unprecedented investigation of the different environments that will encounter during the 7-years long cruise. The present paper reviews all the planetary flybys and some interesting cruise configurations. Additional scientific research that will emerge in the coming years is also discussed, including the instruments that can contribute.

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