Linking Space Weather Environment to Space Weather Impact on NASA assets

Abstract:

Forecasting space weather environment is a challenge on its own. However, to make the information useful to spacecraft operations and spacecraft anomaly analysis, it is crucial to connect the environment to the actual impacts. Unfortunately, efforts in this area have been rather limited. In this presentation, we will discuss our efforts at CCMC (Community Coordinated Modeling Center)/SWRC (Space Weather Research Center) in coupling space weather environment observations/models to engineering models to quantify effects on spacecraft components/electronics. In addition, by working with people involved in spacecraft operations and their log of ‘special’ events, we are working on extracting environment - impact rules that can be applied to future missions.