Space Situational Awareness (SSA)

SSA refers to understanding the environment in space, evaluating potential dangers to space activities, and putting required mitigation measures in place to protect space assets.

  • Space Surveillance and Tracking (SST) of artificial objects, Space Weather (SWE) monitoring and forecast, and Near-Earth Objects (NEO) monitoring are the three core topics covered by SSA (only natural space objects).
  • Now, IIT Delhi is conducting research on space situational awareness (SSA). Meanwhile, the Garhwal region of Uttarakhand will house the country's first commercial SSA observatory, which will be established by Indian space industry startup Digantara. Also, a bilateral SSA agreement has been inked between ....
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