Electron emission and Surface State

Characterization of the emission of electrons under impact of energetic electrons, ions and photons.
.Control of the emission yield through control of the surface state.
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Conductivity

Characterization of the bulk and surface conductivity of materials used in space industry.
Effect of temperature, charging and radiation induced conductivity.
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Erosion and contamination

Characterization of the outgassing and redeposition of contaminant from space materials.
Characterization of the erosion rate of materials under impact of heavy ions.
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Material Database

Database of characteristics of material interactions with the space enviroment.
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Charging

Absolute and differential charging based on plasma environment and material interactions
(secondary emission under electrons and ions impact, photo-emission, environment-varying conductivity,...)

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Electric Propulsion

Modelling of Hall and ion-grid thrusters, with dedicated models for the electron plume.
Models for FEEPs and colloid thrusters including droplet transport and deposit.

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Multipactor in RF components

Models and chacterization of the multipactor effect.

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Extremely low noise kinetic simulations

Kinetic simulation of the spacecraft and sub-systems with a relative noise <10-4.
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Instrumentation simulation

Numerical twin of scientific instrumentation onboard spacecraft and in vacuum chambers.
For instrument design, operational exploitation and later data processing.
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Facility and Experiment numerical twins

Dedicated algorithms to simulate the plasma, material and instrument behaviors in vacuum chambers.
For instrument design, operational exploitation and later data processing.
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Dusty environment, Lunar and Astroid's surfaces

Characterization of the regolith and dusty surfaces electrostatic characteristics and risks for the system.
Modeling and characterization of the dust transport and adhesion to lander or equipement surfaces

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Charging Environment and Electrostatic Risks

Characterization of the charging enviroments and determination of the charging risks.

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Environmental Charging for Solar System Exploration

Characterization of the erosion rate of materials under impact of heavy ions.

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SPIS

Spacecraft-Plasma interaction Software

SPIS is the world-leading spacecraft charging simulation code. It is mainly developed by ONERA and Artenum, with contributions from major European space industries and academic institutions gathered in the SPINE community and with funding from European anf French space agencies. SPIS primary aims at computing the charge level of spacecraft surfaces exposed to the space environment, but it was extended over years to handle plasma physics (in particular rfor the accurate simulation of electric thruster plume), radiation induced charge and conductivity, micro-physics of the discharge, charge and transport of dusts and droplets,... SPIS is a modular open-source software.

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ONERA and Artenum offer support for simulation and studies performed with the SPIS software in the frame of the SpaceSuite activity.

More information on the SpaceSuite website

Virtual Observatory plugin to SPIS Europlanet 2024 RI

The Virtual Observatory plugin for SPIS has been developped in the frame of the Europlanet RI 2024 project from the European Commission. It allows to connect SPIS to environment databases and tools that use a structure consistent with the SPASE data model and with the IVOA recommendations. The plugin is currently under development and is provided by beta testing. Requires SPIS v6.1 and JAVA 8 and includes the ONERA Space Library.

Download SPIS virtual observatory User Manual

Download SPIS virtual observatory plugin - v0.1

SoCCER

Solar Cell Charging and Electrostatic Risks

The SoCCER software has been developped at ONERA to gather engineering numerical models targeting the charging and electrostatic risk evaluation of the Solar generators and solar cells. SoCCER is a versatile tool that support model addition through plugins. The downloadable version comes with the HiVES model that computes the current collection by solar cell exposed condutors. Additionnal plugins will be integrated / proposed at a further stage. Requires JAVA 8 and includes the ONERA User Interface and Space Library.

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ChaMISEn Libraries

Characteristics of Material Interactions with Space Environments

The ChaMISEn Library package provides JAVA libraries allowing to handle and display information from ChaMISEn databases. Under CeCILL-C licence. Includes the ONERA Space Library.

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Pierre Sarrailh

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Charging and Models

Sébastien Hess

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Contamination

Jean-François Roussel

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Databases and Softwares

Ludivine Leclerq

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Discharges and Arcing

Julien Jarrige

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Dusts and Nanosats

Jean-Charles Matéo-Vélez

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Erosion

Marc Villemant

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Material Conductivity

Thierry Paulmier

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Secondary Emission and Surface states   

Mohamed Belhaj

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Space physics and Scientific missions

Sébastien Hess

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