PRIDE workshop 2025

3 Jun 2025, 12:00 → 4 Jun 2025, 18:00 Europe/Amsterdam

Meeting Rooms 1 and 2 (TU Delft)

Dominic Dirkx (TU Delft), Giuseppe Cimo (Joint Institute for VLBI ERIC)

We are pleased to invite you to participate in an upcoming workshop focused on the Planetary Radio Interferometry and Doppler Experiment (PRIDE).

 

PRIDE is an experimental technique designed to enhance the science return of planetary missions by utilizing near-field phase-referencing Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) and Doppler tracking of the spacecraft's radio signals. 

 

This workshop will provide a valuable opportunity to:

 

• Discuss the current status and planning of PRIDE observations during the ESA's JUICE cruise phase, including the upcoming Venus flyby, which serves as an important test for our procedures.
• Review the progress on the integration of PRIDE observations with the mission operations.
• Explore opportunities for observations with other missions.
• Highlight the latest developments in our planning and scheduling software designed to optimize PRIDE observations
• Present the potential of PRIDE data for improving orbit determination, gravity measurements, and the accuracy of planetary and satellite ephemerides.

 

Your expertise and contributions are crucial as we move forward with the PRIDE experiment and the JUICE mission is on its way to Jupiter.

Tuesday 3 June

Day 1 - Afternoon part 1

12:30 Welcome of participants (lunch in the University cafeteria)

1 PRIDE JUICE status update

Speaker: Giuseppe Cimo (Joint Institute for VLBI ERIC)

2 PRIDE VLBI products

Speakers: Alfonso Sanchez Rodriguez, Giuseppe Cimo (Joint Institute for VLBI ERIC), Mas Said

3 Doppler analysis tools

Speaker: Guifre' Molera

4 PRIDE Doppler products

Speaker: Dominic Dirkx

5 PRIDE-JUICE Archiving

Speaker: Vidhya Pallichadath

6 PRIDE data archive

Speaker: Vidhya Pallichadath

15:00 Coffee break

Day 1 - Afternoon part 2

7 PRIDE JUICE - Working groups

Speaker: Giuseppe Cimo (Joint Institute for VLBI ERIC)

8 PRIDE workflow

Speakers: Dominic Dirkx, Giuseppe Cimo (Joint Institute for VLBI ERIC), Vidhya Pallichadath

9 PRIDE Workflow discussion and actions items

10 Day 1 conclusions

19:00 Dinner

Not covered by the meeting.
Participants pay themselves

Wednesday 4 June

Day 2 - Morning

11 PRIDE Applications - Orbit determination

Speaker: Dominic Dirkx

12 PRIDE VLBI observations downunder

Speaker: Oliver White

13 PRIDE Applications - Space Weather

Speaker: Jasper Eduards

14 Propagation of compressible fluctuations inferred from radio sounding during tianwen-1 solar conjunction

Speaker: Maoli Ma

15 PRIDE Applications - Discussion

10:30 Coffee break

16 Ephemerides of moons

Speaker: Valery Lainey

17 JUICE and Europa Clipper

Speaker: Sam Fayolle

18 Flyby of Venus - preparation and planning

Speakers: Giuseppe Cimo (Joint Institute for VLBI ERIC), Dominic Dirkx, Sandor Frey, Valery Lainey

12:00 Lunch

Day 2 - Afternoon

19 PRIDE Sustainability

Speakers: Giuseppe Cimo (Joint Institute for VLBI ERIC), Dominic Dirkx

20 PRIDE funding opportunities NWO calls

Speaker: Dominic Dirkx

21 PRIDE Funding opportunities - NSO PI support

Speakers: Dominic Dirkx, Giuseppe Cimo (Joint Institute for VLBI ERIC)

15:00 Coffee break

22 Pride outreach activities

Speaker: Giuseppe Cimo (Joint Institute for VLBI ERIC)

23 PRIDE future - Discussion

24 Final remarks