Taking initiative in SSAM awareness, ISRO to set up center to protect Indian Satellites from space debris
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Bengaluru, Aug. 6: Space Situational Awareness & Management (SSAM) has become an internationally significant area due to the ever-growing man-made space debris population and the increased collision threat with operational spacecraft.
making an important step towards this matter, the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) on Saturday laid the foundation stone for the Space Situational Awareness Control Centre in Bengaluru.
The control center would host a range of activities related to the protection of Indian space assets from inactive satellites, pieces of orbiting objects, near-earth asteroids and adverse space weather conditions.
Chairman, ISRO laid the foundation stone for Space Situational Awareness Control Centre at Peenya, Bengaluru on 2nd August, which is an important milestone in the progress of ISRO.
ISRO has taken special attention to this aspect. ISRO has set up a Directorate of Space Situational Awareness and Management aiming at protecting high valued space assets from space debris close approaches and collisions. To carry out systematically all activities related to SSAM, a control center is being established at Bengaluru.
The Control Centre would facilitate the intensified activities foreseen for SSAM, in view of increasing debris population and operational space assets. The control center would host a range of activities pertaining to the protection of Indian Space assets from inactive satellites, pieces of orbiting objects, near-earth asteroids and adverse space weather conditions.
It would assimilate the tracking data of inactive satellites from indigenous observation facilities and generates useful information from bare observations through analysis. For sustainable use of space, the control center would enable research activities pertaining to active debris removal, space debris modeling, and mitigation.