European Space Weather Week 2025

Solar Orbiter contribution to Space Weather activities

Not scheduled

15m

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

Anik De Groof (ESA/ESAC)

Description

The Solar Orbiter spacecraft carries a priviledged pauload composed of both Remote Sensing and In Situ instruments. Its orbit is as close to the Sun as 0.3 AU and it will incline the plane of its orbit up to around 30 degrees in the next years.
Due to its orbit trajectory around the Sun, there are periods of high latency when no science data is readily available. However, the mission has been designed to produce daily data called "Low Latency" which are not ready for science but give a very good indication of the status of the Sun and the Heliosphere at the time of observation.
These Low Latency data are already used by Space Weather platforms (e.g., NASA's Community Coordinated Modeling Center (CCMC)) and contribute to a better understanding of the Heliosphere environment.
This poster discusses the type of Low Latency data produced by Solar Orbiter and its possible use for Space Weather activities.