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Our activities in 2015

The annual report describes activities and results of the Czech Space Office in 2015. In this period, the most of activities were supported and funded by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports. Part of the activities was founded by the Operational Programme “Education for Competitiveness” and Horizon 2020.

TARANIS IDEE-A

French satellite TARANIS will be tasked with studying of radiation from atmospheric lightning discharges and from optical phenomena observed between the Earth's troposphere and ionosphere. The IDEE-A unit is designed for the measurement control, storage and processing of the data and their pipelining to the scientific telemetry MEXIC.

TARANIS IME-HF

French satellite TARANIS will be tasked with studying of radiation from atmospheric lightning discharges and from optical phenomena observed between the Earth's troposphere and ionosphere (blue jets, red sprites, halos, elves). The IME-HF will record detailed waveform measurements of fluctuating electric fields in the frequency range from a few kHz up to 37 MHz.

Solar Orbiter SWA/PAS

Solar Wind Plasma Analyzer (SWA) is one of ten instruments that will be placed in the Solar Orbiter probe. Its sensors will measure density, velocity and temperature of ions and electrons of the solar wind between 0.28 and 1.4 times the Earth-Sun distance.

Safetree

The objective of the SAFETREE (Satellite Support to Forest Fires Airborne Patrol) project, coordinated by Gisat, was to design, develop and verify an operational forest monitoring service in order to support forest fire danger assessment in the Czech Republic.

Epoxy Core

The syntactic epoxy foam designed for use in space was developed in the Epoxy Core project. As part of the sandwich composites for launchers it significantly reduces its total weight. Saving material is crucial for this area. At the same time, the foam retains parameters defined in the project.

ACES-ELT

CSRC company and scientists from Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering of the CTU finalize project ELT. The ELT project is purely Czech contribution to important international experiment ACES. Its major goal is to verify performance of new generation of extremely precise atomic clock in microgravity.

Czech instrument on Mars

The European Space Agency has selected the scientific instruments for the ExoMars mission landing platform for 2018. The WAM wave analyzer to measure changes in the magnetic field is among the six selected experiments. The proposal had been submitted by the scientific team of the Institute of Atmospheric Physics ASCR. The probe with the Czech scientific instrument will be launched in May 7, 2018.

Dromas

Gisat has completed a its DROMAS project. Two types of services were created. They are intended to monitor the health of agricultural crops and provide management and decision-making support at the farm level. Performance of services will be evaluated in a follow-up project within next three years.

Reflections on IAC 2015

The Czech Space Office has returned from 66th International Astronautical Congress 2015 in Jerusalem. Motto of the IAC 2015 was "Space - the Gateway for Mankind's Future" and it was attended by total of 2,100 registered participants.

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