ASPIS
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The Italian Space Agency has produced a Space Weather (SWE) roadmap **([RD-2])** for a long-term strategy to
support the future scientific research of SWE, and the development of a related national scientific data centre
for Space Weather, called ASI SPace Weather InfraStructure (ASPIS), while reinforcing the interactions and
synergies among the SWE Italian groups, and organizing them in a strong collaborative environment. 
The ASPIS system is hosted in the ASI SSDC infrastructure.

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ASPIS for science
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From a scientific point of view, ASPIS addresses problems related to the origin and evolution of solar eruptive
events, their propagation and impacts through an unprecedented, comprehensive, multidisciplinary, and
integrated approach. This encompasses the whole chain of phenomena from the Sun to the Earth, as well as
to other planets. In this endeavour, it will be crucial to exploit a variety of products (datasets, codes, models),
which ultimately populate the ASPIS system. ASPIS unifies multiple SWE resources in a flexible
architecture to allow users to perform advanced scientific studies, both through a web interface, and a dedicated
SW package called ASPIS.py. A keyword, metadata-based system enhances search capabilities, especially as
data volume grows with recorded events. The ASPIS system is open-source, allowing researchers to
study problems that span across disciplinary boundaries. It creates an environment where scientists can
discover, understand, and model the connection between solar phenomena, interplanetary disturbances, and
their impacts on the planets (especially the Earth).

ASI-SSDC context
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The Space Science Data Center of the Italian Space Agency has its roots in the early ’90s with the Data Center of
the BeppoSax X-ray astronomy satellite, then evolved into the ASI Science Data Center (ASDC), established in
2000 as a multi-mission facility linked to high-energy astrophysics data managing and exploitation.
The two distinctive scopes of SSDC are the archiving, analysis, distribution of space mission data, and the
development of scientific tools to extract high-level scientific information from the data of interest. These goals
have been traditionally accomplished by following an “operative approach” involving both scientists and
industrial partners. The centre is constituted by personnel from the Italian Space Agency, the National Institute
for Astrophysics (INAF), and the National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN), with an Information and
Communication Technology (ICT) support provided by industrial partners (that currently are Telespazio and
Serco).
This approach allowed for the development of software tools oriented to the real scientists needs. Indeed, some
of these tools have become milestones for the relevant scientific communities, such as the Multi Mission
Interactive Archive (MMIA), the SED (Spectral Energy Distribution) Tool and MATISSE.


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   :caption: ASPIS documentation

   webapp
   aspis_py

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..   ASi sPace weather InfraStructure.
