Space Weather Operations

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David Berghmans 

Royal Observatory of Belgium

Space Weather: Sunny days ahead

"Switch to Space”, Topic 5: Physical Sciences, 2018 Oct 8, Egmontpaleis Brussel

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Simon Schmidt www.globalview.be

http://www.observatory.be

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Simon Schmidt www.globalview.be

http://www.observatory.be

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http://sidc.be/uset

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http://sidc.be/silso

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Observations from the ground

http://sidc.be/uset http://sidc.be/humain

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http://sidc.be/proba2

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The Earth Magnetosphere

http://swe.ssa.esa.int

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Space Weather Eﬀects

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Space Weather Operations

Space Weather

Operations

http://sidc.be

http://swe.ssa.esa.int

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PROBA2

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PROBA-3

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will reach <0.3AU

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will reach >30 deg latitude

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Solar Orbiter

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Extreme Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope

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Solar Physics at ROB: 44 people

20 solar physicists

4 instrument specialists 7 operators

5 technicians

8 IT developers

including 5 PhD students & 13 nationalities,   average age << 47 year

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What?

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Summary

• The Sun is a Rosetta stone for stellar physics and plasma physics

• The influence of the Sun (space weather) is an

engineering challenge for modern (space) technology

• Belgium is only a small country for our planet but   with a giant research community for our star

• Solar Physics in Belgium is young, very international and waiting for its biggest projects yet