1 Volker Liebig (H/ESRIN, D-EOP) Gunther Kohlhammer Head of Earth Observation Ground Segment & Mission Operations Department 06 November 2012 Introduction to ESRIN ESA Centre for Earth Observation Alliance for Permanent Access Conference

2 Goal: “To provide for and promote, for exclusively peaceful purposes, cooperation among European states in space research and technology and their space applications.” Over 40 years of experience 19 Member States Five establishments in Europe, about 2200 staff 4 billion Euro budget (2012) Over 70 satellites designed, tested and operated in flight 17 scientific satellites in operation Celebrated the 200th launch of Ariane in February 2011 ESA FACTS AND FIGURES

3 ESA has 19 Member States: 17 states of the EU (AT, BE, CZ, DE, DK, ES, FI, FR, IT, GR, IE, LU, NL, PT, RO, SE, UK) plus Norway and Switzerland. Eight other EU states have Cooperation Agreements with ESA: Estonia, Slovenia, Poland, Hungary, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania and the Slovak Republic. Bulgaria and Malta are negotiating Cooperation Agreements. Canada takes part in some programmes under a Cooperation Agreement. 19 MEMBER STATES AND GROWING

4 Space science Human spaceflight Exploration Earth observation Launchers ESA is one of the few space agencies in the world to combine responsibility in nearly all areas of space activity. ACTIVITIES Navigation Telecommunications Technology Operations

5 Houston Washington Kourou Moscow ESA sites/facilities Offices ESTEC (Noordwijk) Brussels ESA HQ (Paris) Toulouse ESAC (Madrid) ESRIN (Rome) EAC (Cologne) ESOC (Darmstadt) ESA’S LOCATIONS Harwell Redu Salmijaervi (Kiruna) ESA ground stations New Norcia Santa Maria Cebreros, Villafranca Oberpfaffenhofen Maspalomas Perth Malargüe

6 Rome and ESRIN Envisat ASAR image, August 2003

7  + 60 international conferences, visitors per year Personnel on site (Oct 2012): 617 The ESRIN Establishment  221 ESA staff (including YGT, fellows and trainees)  396 contractors – Earth Observation – Vega Department – Corporate Informatics – Telecommunications – Contracts, Site, Personnel, Communication – ASI Science Data Centre – ESA Security Office

8 Earth Observation functions in ESRIN  EO Payload Operation Management Centre  Multi-mission Ground Segment management  Earth science & application development  GMES Space Office  Charter management  Earthnet activities management  CEOS and GEO activities  EO User Helpdesk Earth Observation in ESRIN

ESA Ground Segment Introduction: Slide 9 Centralised Functions Development, Management and Maintenance of a distributed Ground Segment User Services Multi-mission Mission Planning Instrument Performance Monitoring, Product Development & QC Exploitation Development and Management Technology Development Standardisation and Technology Transfer Mission Management, Data Policy ESA ESRIN Control Centre for Distributed Facilities 25 Expert Support Laboratories ECMWF & Meteorological Network Ground & Satellite Data Dissemination Networks and Data Flow ESA & TPM Satellite Flight Control Centres 28 Foreign Stations worldwide 10 National Ground Stations 10 Processing and Archiving Facilities + small thematic archives Science Users 200 VAC and Service Companies GMES Services

10 In Orbit today: ESA Earth Observation satellites 4 EO missions in operation –5 more currently operated by Eumetsat 3 historical ESA missions + 30 partner missions for which data are disseminated to European users user projects worldwide– increasing further More than 100 Terabytes/yr of data Increase by a factor of 40 in the coming years Preservation of Space derived data has become an important Issus for ESA even at the level of CMIN 2012

11 The International Charter on Space and Major Disasters - > Data acquisition in case of natural or human-made disasters - > Data delivery to civil protection agencies, emergency & rescue services  Darfur Crisis 2004  Tsunami Catastrophe 2004/2005  Hurricane Katrina 2005  Sichuan Earthquake 2008  Haiti earthquake 2010  Japan earthquake / tsunami 2011  Fires in Chile (Patagonia) 2011  Feugo Volcano in Guatemala 2012 : Examples of activations: Satellites for emergency relief

12  ESRIN is the management centre for the VEGA small launcher programme  VEGA is able to place up to 2000-kg satellites into polar and low-Earth orbits  First VEGA qualification flight successful on 13 February 2012 VEGA Small launcher programme

13 Information Systems ESRIN is the Host centre of ESA ’ s Information Systems: – Corporate Business Applications – Corporate Information Technology Infrastructure ESA ’ s Information Systems Department ensures that ESA runs smoothly. Informatics

14  Virtual Reality Theatre  European Centre for Space Records  Telecommunication Multimedia Infrastructure  ESRIN Telecom Lab  ESA Broadcast Service via Web  Incubators (agreement ESA – BIC Lazio)  ESA Web Portal Further ESRIN Activities

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16 Alliance for Permanent Access Conference 2012 Welcome to ESA and ESRIN Have a good Conference