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Research
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Situational Awareness |
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SSA - Space Situational
Awareness, the study of near-Earth space threats for terrestrial
Life and Society and the quest for coutermeasures and
mitigation actions and services |
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The Space
Situational Awareness - SSA encompasses three major
directions of research and monitoring as well as the creation
of life and social protection oriented services implementation:
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The Space
Weather - SWE segment that focuses on Solar-Terrestrial
Interactions (solar events and solar wind monitoring
and the consequent Earth magnetosphere distortion
and significance), the study of their impact on
climate, environment, essential technologies (communication,
power etc.) and on building warning services - read
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The Near
Earth Objects - NEO segment that focuses on
natural outer space objects (asteroids and comets)
monitoring and characterization in view of assessing
the threat of their catastrophic impact with Earth
and the possible action to be taken in view of risks
avoidance - read
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The Space
Surveillance and Tracking - SST segment that
focuses on monitoring the man-made objects (decommissioned
satellites and erratic satellite fragments - "space
debris") in orbit around the Earth in order
to assess the collisions and uncontrolled re-entry
as well as to built technologies capable to reduce
debris number and mitigate the associated risks
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The SSA activities are mainly oriented for practical purposes
related to the Life and Society protection having strong
connections with other research directions mentioned in
this site: Critical
Telemedicine and Medical Support for Crisis Management
and some aspects of Astrosociology.
Some segments of SSA, notably SWE and Neo are also strongly
related to the research activities in the field of Planetary
Hazards and Threats because the Sun and the comets and
asteroids belong to the near- and medium-deep space environment
of the Earth, the Solar System.
The researchers of the Institute of Space Science, involved
in all SSA segments, with notable competences in SWE,
are interested in co-operations with homologues, in national
and international context.
Contact person: Mihnea Popescu empopescu [at] spacescience [dot] ro
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