CURRENT STATUS AND PERSPECTIVES

Enrico Russo

Open Universe Expert meeng ASI - Roma 11 Apr 2017 1 11-12 Apr. 2017 ASI has been created in 1988 merging two experiences: CNR-PSN and S. Marco program. Both organization basically devoted to research in space.

CNR-PSN The S. Marco SIRIO satellite Launch Base

This heritage has been maintained although the programs devoted to the applications in space have gradually increased, playing today an important role.

The science programs in ASI follows 3 major branches :

• High Energy Astrophisics and Astroparticles • Cosmology and Fundamental Physics • Exploration of the Solar System

Currently ASI has programs either within the mainframe of ESA, either in bilateral cooperation ( NASA/RSA/JAXA) or at national level. Some major steps in ASI science program

2007 Agile 2005 MRO

1997 Cassini- Huygens 1996 SAX

1992 Lageos2 Some major steps in ASI science program

2014

2016 2012 2011 Lisa-PF Lares on Vega Juno NUStar AMS

2009 Herschel

2007 Astrophysics and Cosmology

XMM AGILE Integral Herschel Fermi Pamela

Planck

Nu- Star AMS-2 ASI Tracking Capability

Sardinia Radio Telescope – Sardinia Deep Space Antenna

Malindi: Swift, AGILE, NuSTAR The ASI Science Data Center (ASDC)

ASI Science Data Center (ASDC) has been created in 2000 aer the experience acquired with the previous BeppoSAX Science Data Centre in 1995. Up to now ASDC provided operaonal scienfic support for more than 20 missions and is deeply involved in several new missions such as: , CHEOPS, PLATO.

Beppo SAX (Bruno Rossi Prize) Fermi (Bruno Rossi Prize) • 1996 • 2008 • X-Ray and -Ray • Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Astrophysics

Agile (Bruno Rossi Prize) Swi (Bruno Rossi Prize) • 2007 • 2004 • X-Ray and Gamma-Ray • X-Ray and Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Astrophysics NuSTAR Gaia • 2012 • 2013 • X-ray Astrophysics • Astronomy and stellar astrophysics From ASI Science Data Center to Space Science Data Center

ASDC and Earth Observaon are going to be merged in the new ASI’s facility: “Space Science Data Centre” (SSDC), established in 2016 and sll under construcon. SSDC

Informaon & Universe Earth Compung Observaon Observaon Technologies

Three departments of the new SSDC are devoted to Universe Observaon (collecng former ASDC acvies), to ICT (for both R&D and support to UO and EO) and to Earth Observaon. Acve parcipaon of sciensts and engineers from other Instutes, Universies and industries are foreseen within specific agreements and MoU. SSDC- Space Science Data Center

The Space Science Data Center (SSDC), a facility of the Italian Space Agency (ASI) is a mul- mission science operaons, data processing and data archiving center that provides support to several scienfic space missions. At the moment the SSDC has significant responsibilies for a number of high-energy astronomy/astroparcle satellites (e.g. Swi, AGILE, Fermi, NuSTAR and AMS) and supports at different level other missions like, Herschel and Planck, Mars Express, Rosea. The ASI Science Data Center

The goal has been to support scienfic mission operaons for the Universe observaon and system exploraon.

• Shared infrastructure and reuse experse Support to Scienic gained in previous space missions; Data Processing Operaon

• Use of internaonal standards (e.g., FITS, Science Mission Data NASA-OGIP, VO etc.) for all archives; Mirroring & Archiving Distribuon • Close collaboraon between ASI, Research ASDC Instutes and industries for the realizaon of Support to the Online Tool Analysis scienfic products and services with high scienfic community Development quality standards. Long term data Data Analysis • Internaonal environment (NASA, Caltech, preservaon Soware CfA, Penn State, ESA, ISDC, etc.).

The strength of ASDC is the large adopon of internaonal standards which allows both the re-usability of soware and long term preservaon of the archives. The scienfic approach ensure an effecve interoperability of the archives and data fusion. ASDC Organizaon à SSDC-UO Organizaon

ASDC management and organizaon is leaded by ASI and involves other Naonal Research Instutes and industries.

TELESPAZI § ASI – Italian Space Agency O INAF (Agile, Euclid, SERCO NuSTAR, Swi…) § INAF – Naonal Instute for Astrophysics (ICT)

§ INFN – Naonal Instute for Nuclear Physics

INFN

Research instutes provide scienfic and technical support (AMS, Fermi, Pamela,…) to acvies related to data management and archiving

Industries are involved for Informaon and Communicaon Technology supports. SSDC Staff & Skills SSDC teams involve about 40 sciensts and engineers operang in different fields:

§ Astroparcle Physics § Stellar Astrophysics § High Energy Physics § Cosmology § Solar System Exploraon with large experience on:

§ Support to Scienfic Operaons

§ Data analysis soware & pipelines

§ High quality/level data producon

§ Mission archives, catalogues and mirroring

§ Data preservaon and distribuon

§ Data mining including Big Data (e.g. Gaia)

§ Virtual Observatory Accessing Data at ASDC/SSDC.

Archives of space missions can be Science tools accessed through allow to access ASDC’s scienfic data within an gateway integrated mulfrequency scienfic environment

13 Final Remarks

• ASI will connue to support Space Science Data archiving through its SSDC for all its scienfic missions and these of interest of the Naonal community

• An Open policy will be followed along the lines defined by Open Universe iniave

• ASI will also directly support the Open Universe iniave in cooperaon with UNOOSA

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