Belgian User Support and Operations Centre | 2021-2022

Map Europe countries SWESNET Consortium
Managing ESA’s Space Weather Service Network
B.USOC is leading a consortium of 52 teams all over Europe in charge of operating, developing and improving this network of services to provide timely and reliable space weather information to the different user communities.
Columbus module ASIM in its new location
Relocation of ASIM external payload on the International Space Station
ESA agreed to relocate the payload instead of removing and trashing it. In a very short time, the ground teams overcame all the technical hurdles and transformed the nadir-viewing payload into a limb-viewing one, producing now new science.
Foam-C sample coarsening
Trials and tribulations of FSL and its experiment containers
The Fluid Science Laboratory onboard the ISS saw a lot of sample exchanges and complete Experiment Containers coming and going. Laser issues that even some well-placed hammer blows could not solve, resulted in a 5-month science hiatus.