Network of Space Science and Technology Capacity Building Institutions in Central Eastern and SouthE

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Network of Space Science and Technology Capacity
Building Institutions in Central Eastern and
South-Eastern Europe

• romanian space agency

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Vision Statement

• An essential prerequisite to a successful space
  technology applications is the building of
  various indigenous capacities, particularly human
  resources, within each region
• UN Expert on Space Applications, 1996
• ". . . in promoting spin-off benefits and
  effective space applications, particularly in the
  case of developing countries, it was important
  that the capacity to understand the technology
  and to develop it were considered to be of
  primary importance
• ". . . developing countries should enhance their
  potential in basic and advanced research in order
  to promote capacity building for space
  applications and to benefit from spin-offs of
  space technology"
• UN-COPUOS, 1996

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Contents

• History
• Central Eastern and South-Eastern Europe Network
• National Space Programs Major Directions
• National Space-Related Educational Programs
• Specific International Cooperation of the
  Countries in the Region
• Proposal for next steps
• Conclusions

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Arguments

• Missing expertise in the non-space countries -
  essential difficulty in the attempt to make use
  of space technology
• To transfer space technology to a region or a
  country - need of sufficient qualified personnel
  in science, technology and management.
• Utilization of foreign experts - mostly
  prohibitive due to costs
• To make use of permanently renewing space
  technologies - need of specialized personnel

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How Did We Get Here?

• United Nations OOSA initiative of
• Regional Space Centers in the frame of the UN
• Program of Space Applications
• The complementarity between
• the UN requirement that the concept of regional
  Centers impose the offer of best possible
  education, research and applications experience
• the specific needs and skills of the Central,
  Eastern and South Eastern European countries
  expressed through the advancement of their
  national space programs in the frame of the late
  80s political and economical major changes in
  the region

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United Nations Initiative

• 1990 - The UN should lead . . . an international
  effort to establish regional centers for space
  science and technology education . .
• 1993 - Regional Centers on Space Science and
  Technology Education (A./AC.105/534)
• 1993 - 1996 - Greece, Romania and other Member
  States offered to host or to serve as a node for
  such a Center covering the region of the Economic
  Commission for Europe
• 1996 - Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary,
  Poland, Romania, Slovak Republic, Turkey
  reiterated the agreement to establish a Network
  of space science and technology institutions,
  devoted primarily to capacity building
• 1996 - UN-OOSA Meeting of Experts from the
  countries of the region
• 1997 - Memorandum of Understanding Agreed. A
  technical study is under preparation

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Goals

• Human resources building to meet the space
  science and technology development for the 21st
  Century
• Access of the Countries of the Region to the
  permanent renewing of the space technologies
• Promote the full integration of the Central
  Eastern and South-Eastern European Countries
  potential in the space endeavor for peaceful uses
  of outer space
• Contribute, by approaching to the requirements of
  the space programs developed by powerful space
  organizations as the European Space Agency, to
  the technological development and goodwill of the
  region

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Objectives

• A Network of Space Centers in Central Eastern and
  South Eastern European Countries
• Promote, by space specific multi- and
  inter-disciplinary methods, higher level capacity
  building in the region
• Develop future specific regional space education,
  research and applications projects
• Develop joint space scientific and operational
  programs and benefit of them at the regional level

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Methods

• Higher education in space-related fields at the
  best international levels, making use of
  international and local expertise
• Masters and Ph.D.... in space science and
  technology multi- and interdisciplinary fields
• Develop common space research and infrastructure
  projects required by the expected level of the
  educational process
• Low cost research and development projects in all
  major fields of space science and technology,
  using the common experience and capabilities of
  the Countries of the Region

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Status - June 1997

• Exchange of information on two key areas
• space activities in each country - main research
  groups, topics and projects
• space-related educational programs in each
  country - main fields of university level
  expertise and training facilities
• The countries have established the national Core
  institution as the most familiar with the
  programs in the areas of space science and
  technology
• UN-OOSA Composite document - the basis for
  further organization and the technical study to
  be prepared for an agreed network
• A technical study is to be performed by an
  evaluation mission
• . . . Experts Meeting at OOSA - February 1997

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Central Eastern and South-Eastern European
Countries Involved in the Project (Feb. 1997)

• Bulgaria
• Czech Republic
• Greece
• Hungary
• Poland
• Slovak Republic
• Romania
• Turkey
• . . .

under the UN-OOSA coordination
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Central Eastern and South-Eastern Europe Network
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National Space Programs Major DirectionsBULGARIA

• Earth Observation
• Space Medicine and Biology
• Space communications
• Material science and microgravity
• Space physics and geophysics
• Revival of aerospace technology
• Participation to a microsatellite project
• Core institution Bulgarian Aerospace Agency -
  Sofia

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National Space Programs Major DirectionsCZECH
REPUBLIC

• Space Physics and Atmospheric Sciences
• Astronomy
• Development of the space onboard instruments
• Development of the MAGION series of small
  satellites
• Participation to the CESAR microsatellite project
• Participation to international space missions
• (UN A/AC.105/661, December 1996)

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National Space Programs Major DirectionsGREECE

• Geodesy and Geodynamics
• Earth Observation
• Atmospheric sciences
• Satellite communications
• Applications to meteorology, climatology, upper
  atmosphere studies, land cover/land use, forest
  mapping, cadastral mapping, marine research
• Development of infrastructure

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National Space Programs Major DirectionsHUNGARY

• Space-Earth System
• including remote sensing
• Space Physics
• Space Life Sciences
• Satellite Technics and Technologies
• including satellite communications and
  information, materials science
• Participation to international space missions
• Participation to the CESAR microsatellite project
• (Space activities in Hungary 1994-95 -National
  Report)

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National Space Programs Major DirectionsPOLAND

• Space Physics
• Satellite Geodesy
• Remote Sensing
• Space Medicine and Biology
• Space Technology and Astronautics
• Participation to international space missions
• Participation to the CESAR microsatellite project
• Development of the POLSTAR national satellite
  communications system
• Core institution Space Research Center - Warsawa

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National Space Programs Major DirectionsROMANIA

• Space Strategy and Policy
• Basic Space Sciences, Space Physics and Astronomy
• Space and Aerospace Techniques, Microgravity
• Space Communications and Information
• Earth Sciences and Remote Sensing
• applications to meteorology, land use,
  cartography, geological survey, GIS
• Life Sciences
• Project of a small scientific and operational
  satellite
• Participation to international space missions
• Core institution Romanian Space Agency -
  Bucharest

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National Space Programs Major DirectionsSLOVAK
REPUBLIC

• Astronomy
• Space Physics and Geophysics
• Life Sciences in Space
• Remote sensing applications
• GIS, environmental monitoring
• Hydrometeorology
• Danube Remote Sensing DEMO project
• Participation to international space missions
• Core institution Slovak Hydrometeorological
  Institute

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National Space Programs Major DirectionsTURKEY

• Atmospheric and Space Sciences
• Space Electronics
• Training and Education
• Infrastructure facilities in remote sensing,
  satellite communications and radioastronomy
• Participation to international space applications
  programs
• Core institution Marmara Research Center -
  TUBITAK

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National Space-Related Educational Programs

• Major areas of space-related educational fields
  are represented in most of the Countries in the
  Region, and they are related to the national
  space programs
• Some similarities occur in the countries former
  members of the INTERKOSMOS organization
• Several general fields seem to be relatively more
  developed in some countries, due to specific
  geographical or industrial conditions
• All countries offer doctoral training facilities
  on precise fields
• Some countries offer existent training technical
  and logistic infrastructure
• The emergent suggested general curriculum is a
  reunion of the ones proposed and covers most of
  the space fields

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National Space-Related Educational
ProgramsGeneral curriculum

• Common education module. Space policy and law.
  Information science and systems
• Fundamental science of space and Astronomy
• Space sciences, geonomic and atmospheric sciences
  
• Microgravity and Life sciences
• Satellite communications curriculum
• Meteorological satellite applications curriculum
• Remote sensing and GIS curriculum
• Space instrumentation, aerospace construction,
  spaceflight dynamics and mission design

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Specific international cooperation of the
countries in the region

• All countries meet the following
• participants to relevant international treaties
  and agreements related to the peaceful uses of
  outer space
• participants to particular space science and
  applications high-level international programs
• members of COSPAR
• Some countries have long duration experience in
  the INTERKOSMOS organization
• Some countries have signed Agreement of
  cooperation with the European Space Agency
• Some countries have established their own
  national space agencies

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Affiliation to Space Organizations and Agreements
(1)
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Affiliation to Space Organizations and Agreements
(2)
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Proposal for next steps

• The Network Agreement
• Technical Study
• Advisory Board
• Network Information System
• Common Projects within the Network

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The Network Agreement

• Conclusion of an Agreement for the Establishment
  of a Network of Space Science and Technology
  Capacity Building Institutions in Central-Eastern
  and South-Eastern Europe
• endorsed by all the participant countries and
  OOSA
• agreement open to all interested countries
• to establish
• the administrative structure of the Network
• the operation of the electronic information
  network
• the forms of cooperation, as
• exchange of information
• exchange of students/scientists
• seminars and workshops
• the necessary relations with major space
  organizations

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Technical study

• Completion of the technical study, to
  define,inter alia
• common curricula of the education process
• common fields of research and development
  interests
• the technical procedure to constitute and monitor
  the Network information system
• the countries local support and the UN necessary
  politic and logistic support
• the calendar of activities for the next presumed
  period
• the common international legal frame for the
  functioning of the network and the specific
  accreditation and intellectual rights procedures

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Advisory Board of the Network

• The procedure for the formation of an Advisory
  Board should result from the technical study and
  must be completed in the same time with the
  definition of the curricula and the draft common
  projects
• Each country could nominate two international
  recognized experts (principal and alternate) in
  the main fields defined by the educational and
  research curricula
• The members of the Advisory Board could elect the
  Chairman by consensus, for a defined period

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Common projects within the Network

• Common research and development projects should
  present some the following features
• medium and long term - the average duration
  needed to complete a Ph.D.... thesis
• multi- and interdisciplinarity - to prepare space
  experts and to give the possibility to
  accommodate groups of several students having
  different base academic qualifications
• producers of large amounts of data - to optimize
  the utilization of standard existing information
  technology
• contents in both theoretical and experimental
  components
• low-cost and presumptive sources of space
  spin-offs

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Host Institutions in Romania

• romanian space agency
• Established in 1991 as a national organization in
  order to recover the scientific and technical
  potential, also to facilitate the integration in
  the international space endeavour
• By the Government Decision no. 923/ 20 November
  1995, the Romanian Space Agency became an
  independent institution in the system of the
  Ministry of Research and Technology
• The objectives of the Agency are
• to coordinate the national efforts in the field
  and
• to promote space development
• to sustain, as a Government representative, the
  international cooperation
• ROSA is authorized to establish research and
  development centres oriented on specific
  objectives of the Romanian Space Programme.

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Host Institutions in Romania

• National Institute on Aerospace Researches Elie
  Carafoli - Bucharest (INCAS)
• Established in 1948 as the Institute of Fluid
  Mechanics of the Ormanian Academy, main RD
  institute devoted to aerospace research and
  design
• Designer of several combat and civilian aircraft
  and other different aerospace projects
• Organized (1996) as a institue of national
  interest, INCAS is the proposed the host
  institution ensuring the logistic infrastructure
  of the Node of the Network
• Aerodinamic testing facilities (trisonic wind
  tunnel, Ludwieg tube) unique in the Region
• Information centre and Library (50,000 issues)

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Microsatellite (1)

• Development of a small satellite with remote
  sensing, informational and educational
  capabilities
• Main purpose - promotion of space science,
  technology and applications with spin-offs to
  regional development and capacity building
• Technical data
• mass 40-60 kg
• orbit 250 - 350 km /polar, or
• 800 km sunsynchronous
• sensor CCD UV/VIS/IR
• swath 100-200 km

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Microsatellite (2)

• Applications and benefits
• environmental and hazard monitoring
• medium and low resolution Earth Observation
• Developing of
• data processing facilities
• small space reception centers
• educational communication facilities
• education masters and Ph.D... Thesis in
  space-related fields
• formation of new research and development groups
  devoted to a longer term project, the
  sustainability conferred by a regional
  cooperation being more significant that the one
  offered by each country in the region

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Common projects within the Network

• Millimetric radiotelescope
• 2 meters parabolic antenna intended for measuring
  the 2.3 mm radiation emmited by organic molecules
  in the intergalactic clouds
• Geodynamic monitoring of the Carpathians
  curvature seismic zone
• System of geodynamic laboratories with unique
  experimental facilities for weak deformations
  measurements
• Corelation of local terrestrial data with
  satellite magnetospheric and ionospheric
  measurements
• Utilization of satellite Radar Interferometry and
  GPS techniques to monitor the crust movements for
  earthquake predictions

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Studies on complex fluids in short and medium
term microgravity conditions

• studies of the magnetorheological and
  magnetooptical properties of magnetic liquids
• experiments under short and medium term
  microgravity conditions
• applications to space science and technology
  developments
• heat transfer, liquid membrans in microgravity,
  nuclear boiling
• applications to accelerometers and attitude
  control systems

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Conclusions and summary

• The project of the Network of Space Science and
  Technology Capacity Building Institutions in
  Central Eastern and South Eastern is under
  progress, a significant advance being performed
  since 1996
• The Network should develop both higher education
  and research/development activities to ensure the
  production of professionals in renewing multi-
  and interdisciplinary space related fields with
  applications to regional development and capacity
  building
• It is important that the initial phases of the
  technical establishment of the Network to be
  completed as scheduled, in the purpose to connect
  the future capacity building activities with the
  current space research and projects developed in
  the Region