SCIENCE GATEWAY: OVERVIEW

The Van Allen Probes project supports the broader Heliophysics goals as laid out in the NASA Heliophysics Science Data Management Policy. The goal of the Heliophysics Data Environment is to enable science discovery where data are efficiently served through Virtual Observatories (VOs) from distributed, active and (longer-term) resident archives.  

Van Allen Probes will make all its scientific data products quickly and publicly available but all users are expected to read and follow the "Van Allen Probes Mission Rules of the Road for Data Usage". The RBSP instrument teams are working with the VOs and NASAs Space Physics Data Facility (SPDF) to promote the distribution of their data. A preliminary copy of the Van Allen Probes Science Data Management Plan is available here.

Van Allen Probes has a space weather beacon on each of the spacecraft. The Van Allen Probes Space Weather data products are described in this summary table by instrument. RBSP Space Weather data products are available from Current and the data archive.

Online sources and services for Van Allen Probes orbits and data include:

• The Van Allen Probes Science Gateway provides summary orbit plots and spacecraft positions in ASCII files.
• Summary data plots are available from the Instrument SOCs.
• Links to services and tools of use to scientists.