CURRENT STATUS AND PERSPECTIVES
Enrico Russo Italian Space Agency
Open Universe Expert mee ng 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 GAIA
2016 2012 2011 Lisa-PF Lares on Vega Juno NUStar AMS
2009 Herschel Planck
2007 Dawn 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 a er the experience acquired with the previous BeppoSAX Science Data Centre in 1995. Up to now ASDC provided opera onal scien fic support for more than 20 missions and is deeply involved in several new missions such as: Euclid, CHEOPS, PLATO.
Beppo SAX (Bruno Rossi Prize) Fermi (Bruno Rossi Prize) • 1996 • 2008 • X-Ray and Gamma-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 Observa on are going to be merged in the new ASI’s facility: “Space Science Data Centre” (SSDC), established in 2016 and s ll under construc on. SSDC
Informa on & Universe Earth Compu ng Observa on Observa on Technologies
Three departments of the new SSDC are devoted to Universe Observa on (collec ng former ASDC ac vi es), to ICT (for both R&D and support to UO and EO) and to Earth Observa on. Ac ve par cipa on of scien sts and engineers from other Ins tutes, Universi es 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 opera ons, data processing and data archiving center that provides support to several scien fic space missions. At the moment the SSDC has significant responsibili es for a number of high-energy astronomy/astropar cle satellites (e.g. Swi , AGILE, Fermi, NuSTAR and AMS) and supports at different level other missions like, Herschel and Planck, Mars Express, Rose a. The ASI Science Data Center
The goal has been to support scien fic mission opera ons for the Universe observa on and solar system explora on.
• Shared infrastructure and reuse exper se Support to Scien ic gained in previous space missions; Data Processing Opera on
• Use of interna onal standards (e.g., FITS, Science Mission Data NASA-OGIP, VO etc.) for all archives; Mirroring & Archiving Distribu on • Close collabora on between ASI, Research ASDC Ins tutes and industries for the realiza on of Support to the Online Tool Analysis scien fic products and services with high scien fic community Development quality standards. Long term data Data Analysis • Interna onal environment (NASA, Caltech, preserva on So ware CfA, Penn State, ESA, ISDC, etc.).
The strength of ASDC is the large adop on of interna onal standards which allows both the re-usability of so ware and long term preserva on of the archives. The scien fic approach ensure an effec ve interoperability of the archives and data fusion. ASDC Organiza on à SSDC-UO Organiza on
ASDC management and organiza on is leaded by ASI and involves other Na onal Research Ins tutes and industries.
TELESPAZI § ASI – Italian Space Agency O INAF (Agile, Euclid, SERCO NuSTAR, Swi …) § INAF – Na onal Ins tute for Astrophysics (ICT)
§ INFN – Na onal Ins tute for Nuclear Physics
INFN
Research ins tutes provide scien fic and technical support (AMS, Fermi, Pamela,…) to ac vi es related to data management and archiving
Industries are involved for Informa on and Communica on Technology supports. SSDC Staff & Skills SSDC teams involve about 40 scien sts and engineers opera ng in different fields:
§ Astropar cle Physics § Stellar Astrophysics § High Energy Physics § Cosmology § Solar System Explora on with large experience on:
§ Support to Scien fic Opera ons
§ Data analysis so ware & pipelines
§ High quality/level data produc on
§ Mission archives, catalogues and mirroring
§ Data preserva on and distribu on
§ 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 scien fic data within an gateway integrated mul frequency scien fic environment
13 Final Remarks
• ASI will con nue to support Space Science Data archiving through its SSDC for all its scien fic missions and these of interest of the Na onal community
• An Open policy will be followed along the lines defined by Open Universe ini a ve
• ASI will also directly support the Open Universe ini a ve in coopera on with UNOOSA
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