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WORKSHOP
ANNOUNCEMENT
October 5-8 2004 – Working Group Meeting on New Standard Radiation
Belt and Space Plasma Models for Spacecraft Engineering
Members of the international
radiation belt and space plasma modeling community are invited
to attend a workshop on 5-8 October 2004 in the Washington
DC area sponsored by NASA’s Living With a Star Program.
The focus of the workshop will be on the development of the
next generation of radiation belt models and space plasma
models to replace the AP-8 and AE-8 models. The primary purpose
for the development of new models is the reduction of risk
and costs associated with the exposure of spacecraft components
and instruments to the space radiation environment. The goals
of the workshop are to:
- Report and document recent progress on radiation belt model and plasma model
development, and
- Complete a roadmap for the development of new standard radiation belt and
space plasma models for spacecraft engineering.
The workshop introduction will review model requirements derived from the United States
Space Technology Alliance’s Space Environment and Effects
Working Group and from the European Space Agency's Space
Environment and Effects Program. The workshop agenda will
also include:
- Review of the current long-term modeling goals of the participants and
their institutions,
- Plenary sessions on recent developments in radiation belt models for protons
and electrons, space plasma models, dataset availability
and calibration, and current and planned missions and instrumentation
for space radiation environment modeling purposes,
- Road mapping sessions on proton belt models, electron belt models, space
plasma models, dataset management, measurement needs not
met by current datasets, and the model standardization
process, and
- Roadmap session reports and discussion.
Attendees who wish to make a presentation at the meeting should contact the
members of the workshop committee. The Meeting Agenda and Registration Information
will be posted on the Living With a Star WEB Site at http://lws.gsfc.nasa.gov/news.htm.
Sincerely,
The Workshop Committee
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