  The Europlanet 2020 Research Infrastructure will include new Planetary Space
Weather Services (PSWS) that will extend the concepts of space weather and
space situational awareness to other planets in our Solar System and in
particular to spacecraft that voyage through it. PSWS will make five entirely
new toolkits accessible to the research community and to industrial partners
planning for space missions: a general planetary space weather toolkit, as well
as three toolkits dedicated to the following key planetary environments: Mars,
comets, and outer planets. This will give the European planetary science
community new methods, interfaces, functionalities and/or plugins dedicated to
planetary space weather in the tools and models available within the partner
institutes. It will also create a novel event-diary toolkit aiming at
predicting and detecting planetary events like meteor showers and impacts. A
variety of tools are available for tracing propagation of planetary and/or
solar events through the Solar System and modelling the response of the
planetary environment (surfaces, atmospheres, ionospheres, and magnetospheres)
to those events. But these tools were not originally designed for planetary
event prediction and space weather applications. PSWS will provide the
additional research and tailoring required to apply them for these purposes.
PSWS will be to review, test, improve and adapt methods and tools available
within the partner institutes in order to make prototype planetary event and
space weather services operational in Europe at the end of the programme. To
achieve its objectives PSWS will use a few tools and standards developed for
the Astronomy Virtual Observatory (VO). This paper gives an overview of the
project together with a few illustrations of prototype services based on VO
standards and protocols.
