Space Research Programme Antares

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Space Research Programme Antares
Focus on space science and environmental remote
sensing. Many projects have relations to the
programmes of theEuropean Space Agency (ESA).

• Programme duration 2001-2004
• Programme funding 16.8 M
• Tekes 10.2 M
• Academy of Finland 4.6 M
• Research institutes 2.0 M
• Programme ManagerProfessor Väinö Kelhä, VTT
• Further informationwww.tekes.fi/english/programm
  es/antares

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Antares/Reports/Presentation/13.4.2004 Docs
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ANTARES

• Programme status
• 2001-2004
• astrophysics, solar system, remote sensing
  (water, forests)
• 11 projects, utilization of the data of 50
  satellites
• 25 Finnish onboard space instruments in use
• 16 research institutes, 18 foreign partners,
  ESA, NASA
• 11 industrial and 6 technological partners
• 756 scientific papers and presentations
  published
• 24 PhD thesis, 43 MSc thesis
• innovation and commercialization evalution
  completed in 2004
• programme completed 31.3.2004
• scientific evaluation to be completed 29.10.2004

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ANTARES

• Objectives
• The focus of the Antares programme is in space
  science and
• in scientific environmental remote sensing. The
  objective is
• to achieve measurable results in the Finnish
  space research
• to boost it to more remarkable level than ever
• to ensure the continuation of long-term projects
• to support those projects which are in an active
  development phase
• to enable the analysis of large data archives
• to enable observations acquired in the current
  running missions
• to develop new instrument concepts for
  implementation in the future
• to educate for the future of Finnish space
  science
• to increase both national and international
  networking
• to increase the awareness and visibility of the
  space science among the public

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ANTARES

• Contents
• The projects can be divided into the following
  six categories
• according to their contents
• Large international projects in ESA programmes
• Instrument development activities in
  international research programmes
• Large observation programmes that are based on
  operational or planned
• satellite missions
• Research programmes utilising large space data
  archives
• Preparation of new space research programmes
• Development of space measurement methods and new
  technologies

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ANTARES
Project list 1. Planck Surveyor Physics
(Planck) 2. High Energy Astrophysics (HESA) 3.
Space Based Studies of Dark Matter (Darkstar) 5.
Space Weather (SWAP) 6. Cluster II and Miracle
(C2M) 7. Dust, Atmospheres and Plasmas in Solar
System (DAPSS) 8. Micro- and Mesoscale
Atmospheric Phenomena in Mars (MSW) 9. Chemical
Aeronomy of the Mesosphere and Ozone in
Stratosphere (Chamos) 10. New modelling and Data
Analysis for Satellite Based Forest Inventory
(Modafor) 11. Assimilation of Remote Sensing Data
for Environmental Monitoring (Assimenvi)
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ANTARES

• Results
• Finnish scientists found two new black holes Cyg
  X-3 and IGR 19140098 (HESA)
• The space telescope INTEGRAL and JEM-X X-ray
  monitor launched 17.10.2002 (HESA)
• The discovery of the shortest period binary
  system known, orbital period 321 sec (HESA)
• Development of mm-wave technology for Planck
  mission 2007 (Planck)
• Fabrication of the most sensitive 70 GHz
  receivers for radiometer ever made (Planck)
• The technology has security, motor and airfield
  traffic and telecommunications applications
  (Planck)
• Lunar probe SMART-1 with X-ray solar monitor XSM
  launched in 2003 (HESA)
• The developed x-ray technology has commercial
  security and analysis applications (HESA)
• Breakthroughs in instrument and SQUID
  development for XEUS (HESA)
• A new tool for measuring Helium content and the
  distances of stars invented (Darkstar)
• ENVISAT-1 environment satellite with Gomos ozone
  monitor launched in 2002 (Chamos)
• ISO found pre-protostellar cores in a quiescent,
  cold molecular cloud (ISO)
• Forecast of space weather became more accurate
  (SWAP)
• The dayside structure of magnetosphere has been
  found to be very dynamic (C2M)
• Seven instruments to Mars, to the Moon, and to
  the comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko (DAPSS)
• A new model for simulation of Mars's weather
  (MSW)
• A new approach to the estimation of forest
  parameters (Modafor)
• A new technique for estimating forest stem
  volume from radar data (Modafor)