Space Weather Training and Outreach Activities within ESA's Space Safety Programme
Abstract
ESA's Space Safety programme aims at mitigating and preventing the impact of hazards from space on our space and ground based infrastructure. Space weather activities within the programme include development of new measurement capabilities along with a network of pre-operational services with the aim to provide timely and reliable space weather information to end users. The ESA SSA Space Weather Service Network, initially established as part of ESA's Space Situational Awareness Programme and now being further developed as part of the Space Safety Programme, consists of approximately 40 institutes and organisations from across the ESA Member States providing data, modelling and expertise as part of five distributed Expert Service Centres. These individual contributions are combined into end user driven services accessed via a centralised space weather web portal. In addition, the Space Weather Coordination Centre (SSCC) provides first line user support through a dedicated helpdesk along with network monitoring, user engagement and training activities. This presentation will describe ongoing space weather training and outreach activities within the Space Safety Programme targeting both service users and the wider community.
- Publication:
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43rd COSPAR Scientific Assembly. Held 28 January - 4 February
- Pub Date:
- January 2021
- Bibcode:
- 2021cosp...43E2433G