The research on space weather and its effects will be more and more important in the near future, as a continuous increase in human presence is in progress in the Near-Earth region and the technology dependency of the human civilization has become higher than ever mainly in the fields of energy and telecommunication systems.

Cryogenic instruments based on imaging arrays of superconducting Transition Edge Sensor (TES) detectors operating at very-low temperature are proposed for future high- and low-energy astrophysics space missions, including the X-IFU instrument for Athena and the SAFARI instrument for SPICA. 2-D arrays of 1000's of TES detectors at 50 mK enable high-sensitivity imaging with high optical efficiency and fast response.

A user-friendly tool will be developed using software components from the SPIS (Spacecraft plasma Interaction Software). It will include standard plasma environment, material property lists, and will alllow 3-d geometrical models to be created. The tool will allow for a high degree of automisation of parameters needed to make the code run but which do not reflect real phsical inputs, e.g. mesh resolution, particle weights, time-steps. The code will be extensively verified using available data. User and data interfaces will also be produced.