ESA Open Invitation To Tender AO8862
Open Date: 10/02/2017
Closing Date: 24/03/2017 13:00:00

Status: ISSUED
Reference Nr.: 16.197.29
Prog. Ref.: General Studies
Budget Ref.: E/0600-00 – General Studies
Special Prov.: BE+DK+FR+DE+IT+NL+ES+SE+CH+GB+IE+AT+NO+FI+PT+GR+LU+CZ+RO+PL+EE+HU+CA+SI
Tender Type: C
Price Range: 100-200 KEURO
Products: Satellites & Probes / System Engineering Software / Environment Models and Computational Tools / Radiation belts, Solar energetic particles, Galactic cosmic rays, ¿
Techology Domains: Others
Establishment: ESTEC
Directorate: Directorate of Technical & Quality Manag
Department: System, Software & Technology Department
Division: Future Prep. & Strategic Studies Off.
Contract Officer: Elena Grashchenkova
Industrial Policy Measure: N/A – Not apply
Last Update Date: 10/02/2017
Update Reason: Tender issue

Radio climatological models of the ionosphere are key to the system design and performance assessment of some ESA missions, both for Navigation and Earth Observation. In view of the new missions on the horizon and of the amount of experimental data that has been collected on the ionosphere in the past years, it is a proper time to revisit the performance of these models.The overall objective of this activity is to use the experimental observations of the ionosphere collected in the past years to assess the performance of climatological ionosphere models, to assess their ability to properly support future ESA missions, to identify weak areas if any andto propose recommendations for improvements. Most of the effort is expected to be put on ionosphere scintillation models.

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