ISRO lays the Foundation Stone for the Space Situational Awareness Control Centre

The Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) on August 3rd, laid the foundation stone for the Space Situational Awareness Control Centre in Bengaluru.

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  • The control centre 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.
  • It would also assimilate the tracking data of inactive satellites from indigenous observation facilities and generate useful information from bare observations through analysis.
  • Space Situational Awareness & Management (SSAM) has become an internationally significant area due to the rise of manmade space debris and the increased ....
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