European Space Weather Week 2025

Cubesat Orbiters and Landers Payload for Solar and Space Weather Observations (S&SWO)

Not scheduled

20m

Poster P2 - Space Weather at the Moon, Mars, and Beyond: Recent Advancements, Observations, and Future Opportunities for Exploration P2 - Space Weather at the Moon, Mars, and Beyond: Recent Advancements, Observations, and Future Opportunities for Exploration

Speaker

Brigitte Schmieder (Observatoire de Paris-LIRA)

Description

Bernard Foing(1,2,3), Brigitte Schmieder(1,2,4,5), Michel Blanc(1,2,6), Stefaan Poedts(5,7), Tinatin Baratashvili(5), Mojtaba Raouf (2,3)
1COSPAR Panel on Exploration, 2LUNEX SpaceHub, 3Leiden University, 4Paris Observatory, 5KU Leuven, 6IRAP Toulouse, 7UMCS, Lublin

Following recommendations from COSPAR PEX Panel on Exploration (Ehrenfreund et al 2012, Blanc et al 2025), and Horizon 2061 foresight (Blanc et al 2023, Foing et al 2023), we have developed cubesat and shoebox-size payload (CSP4X) for lunar, planetary and solar system exploration (Foing, Raouf et al 2025). The Earth Moon Education CubeSats for Exploration (EMECX) project includes the design and implementation of a 3U or 6U CubeSat aimed at remote sensing of Earth and Moon. This project represents an opportunity for workforce development.
We have tested various instruments for remote sensing. These include multi-band cameras, cameras and spectrometers. We have also tested the operations of such payload on ExoGeoLab lander used in previous EuroMoonMars simulation and field campaigns. The miniaturised instruments were also adapted to telescopes to observe the Moon, the Sun and celestial targets.

We are now designing an adapted 'Solar and Space Weather Observations Cubesat' S&SWOC. The payload includes: 1) a solar imaging telescope with vacuum UV filters covering 160 nm continuum, C IV, Ly alpha (Foing, Bonnet et al 1984, 1986, 1988, Wiik et al 1996); 2) a VUV hyperspectral imager, 3) an X-ray solar monitor (eg SMART1 XSM, Huovelin et al 2002), 4) solar particle and radiation sensors, 5) geocorona and auroral imager.

We are considering possible designs of S&SWOC in earth orbit (S&SWOC-EO), lunar orbit (S&SWOC-LO), or on the lunar surface (S&SWOC-LS) attached to landers in polar peak of quasi-eternal sunlight.
We look also to develop ML techniques for on board processing and advanced analysis and modelling, as well as MHD predictive simulation tools for flares, CMEs and their space weather effects (Schmieder et al 2013, 2015, 2020, Baratashvili et al 2022, 2025).

These could be also precursor for future cubesats in Mars orbit (S&SWOC-MO), or packages on Phobos Surface (S&SWOC-PS). We also consider adapted cubesats in Jupiter Orbit (S&SWOC-JO), or packages on the surface of Icy Moons such as Callisto (S&SWOC-CS) to monitor space weather interactions with the Jupiter-Io-Icy Moons system.

References

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