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Volker Liebig (H/ESRIN, D-EOP)
Gunther Kohlhammer
Head of Earth Observation Ground Segment & Mission Operations Department
06 November 2012
Introduction to ESRINESA Centre for Earth Observation
Alliance for Permanent Access Conference 2012
www.esa.int/esrin
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Goal: “To provide for and promote, for exclusively peaceful purposes, cooperation among European states in space research and technology and their space applications.”
•Over 40 years of experience
•19 Member States
•Five establishments in Europe, about 2200
staff
•4 billion Euro budget (2012)
•Over 70 satellites designed, tested and
operated in flight
•17 scientific satellites in operation
•Celebrated the 200th launch of Ariane in
February 2011
ESA FACTS AND FIGURES
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ESA has 19 Member States: 17 states of the EU (AT, BE, CZ, DE, DK, ES, FI, FR, IT, GR, IE, LU, NL, PT, RO, SE, UK) plus Norway and Switzerland.
Eight other EU states have Cooperation Agreements with ESA: Estonia, Slovenia, Poland, Hungary, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania and the Slovak Republic. Bulgaria and Malta are negotiating Cooperation Agreements.
Canada takes part in some programmes under a Cooperation Agreement.
19 MEMBER STATES AND GROWING
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• Space science
• Human spaceflight
• Exploration
• Earth observation
• Launchers
ESA is one of the few space agencies in the world to
combine responsibility in nearly all areas of space activity.
ACTIVITIES
• Navigation
• Telecommunications
• Technology
• Operations
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Houston
Washington
Kourou
Moscow
ESA sites/facilities
Offices
ESTEC(Noordwijk)
BrusselsESA HQ(Paris)
Toulouse
ESAC(Madrid) ESRIN
(Rome)
EAC (Cologne)
ESOC(Darmstadt)
ESA’S LOCATIONS
Harwell
Redu
Salmijaervi(Kiruna)
ESA ground stations
New Norcia
Santa Maria
Cebreros,Villafranca
Oberpfaffenhofen
Maspalomas
PerthMalargüe
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Rome and ESRIN
Envisat ASAR image, August 2003
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+ 60 international conferences,
36.000 visitors per year
Personnel on site (Oct 2012): 617
The ESRIN Establishment
221 ESA staff (including YGT, fellows and trainees)
396 contractors
– Earth Observation – Vega Department – Corporate Informatics– Telecommunications– Contracts, Site, Personnel,
Communication– ASI Science Data Centre– ESA Security Office
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Earth Observation functions in ESRIN
EO Payload Operation Management Centre Multi-mission Ground Segment management Earth science & application development GMES Space Office Charter management Earthnet activities management CEOS and GEO activities EO User Helpdesk
Earth Observation in ESRIN
ESA Ground Segment Introduction: Slide 9
Centralised Functions
• Development, Management and Maintenance of a distributed Ground Segment
• User Services• Multi-mission Mission Planning• Instrument Performance
Monitoring, Product Development & QC
• Exploitation Development and Management
• Technology DevelopmentStandardisation and Technology Transfer
• Mission Management, Data Policy
ESA ESRIN Control Centre for Distributed Facilities
25 Expert Support Laboratories
ECMWF & Meteorological Network
Ground & Satellite Data Dissemination Networks and Data Flow
ESA & TPM Satellite Flight Control Centres
28 Foreign Stations worldwide
10 National Ground Stations
10 Processing and Archiving Facilities+ small thematic archives
11000 Science Users
200 VAC and Service Companies
GMES Services
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In Orbit today: ESA Earth Observation satellites
• 4 EO missions in operation– 5 more currently operated by Eumetsat
• 3 historical ESA missions +
• 30 partner missions for which data are
disseminated to European users
• +3800 user projects worldwide– increasing
further
• More than 100 Terabytes/yr of data
• Increase by a factor of 40 in the coming years
Preservation of Space derived data has become an important Issus for ESA
even at the level of CMIN 2012
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The International Charter on Space and Major Disasters- > Data acquisition in case of natural or human-made disasters
- > Data delivery to civil protection agencies, emergency & rescue services
Darfur Crisis 2004
Tsunami Catastrophe 2004/2005
Hurricane Katrina 2005
Sichuan Earthquake 2008
Haiti earthquake 2010
Japan earthquake / tsunami 2011
Fires in Chile (Patagonia) 2011
Feugo Volcano in Guatemala 2012
Examples of activations::
Satellites for emergency relief
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ESRIN is the management centre for the VEGA small launcher programme
VEGA is able to place up to 2000-kg satellites into polar and low-Earth orbits
First VEGA qualification flight successful on 13 February 2012
VEGA Small launcher programme
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Information SystemsInformation Systems
ESRIN is the Host centre of ESA’s
Information Systems:
– Corporate Business Applications
– Corporate Information
Technology Infrastructure
ESA’s Information Systems Department
ensures that ESA runs smoothly.
Informatics
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Virtual Reality Theatre
European Centre for Space Records
Telecommunication Multimedia Infrastructure
ESRIN Telecom Lab
ESA Broadcast Service via Web
Incubators (agreement ESA – BIC Lazio)
ESA Web Portal
Further ESRIN Activities
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Alliance for Permanent Access Conference 2012
Welcome to ESA and ESRIN
Have a good Conference