1. EUSO/Portugal • Status of main current activities: • SODC • ULTRA • BABY • IR cameras for EUSO • Politics/money... M. Pimenta Huntsville May 2003 LIP Laboratório de Instrumentação e Partículas

2. SODC: Phase A final reports “EUSO operations: flight and ground” “Phase A specification and design document for the EUSO SODC” (See talk by Catarina on Thursday)

3. SODC: preparing the next steps First annoucement Preliminary Program • ESA scientific programme (EPO session) • Ground Segment and User Centres of ISS payloads • GS operations in recent missions (e.g. Integral -post launch experience) • The EUSO SODC - phase A conclusions and follow up • Involvement of Portuguese SW companies in GS development 2nd Lisbon Workshop on Ground Segment development Spring 2004

4. ULTRA Synchronisation and data acquisition LIP-PAD board Upgraded version for this summer Simulation and data analysis • Upgrade of IDL simulation and reconstruction tool • GEANT4 based ETscope simulation

5. And... politics/money “Portuguese participation in EUSO 2003-2013” Proposal submitted in April • Scenario of the installation of the SODC in Portugal presented • Total budget: 4 M€ (+ 1.6 M €) • From now to Phase B: 60 K€ • (Phase A was financed with 100 K €) • Referees are studying the proposal, we are quite optimistic: • on the go ahead for Phase B • on the presentation of Portugal as the SODC host country