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24/08/22 10:25 AM IST

Uttarakhand to have India's first observatory to monitor space activity

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  • Digantara, a space sector start-up of India, is going to set-up India's first commercial space situational awareness observatory in the Garhwal region of Uttarakhand, to track objects as small as 10 cm in size orbiting the earth.
Digantara 
  • This observatory will monitor the 10 cm size of microscopic particles moving in the space around the Earth.
  • This space situational awareness (SSA) observatory will help in monitoring space waste and military satellites hovering in space around the Earth.
  • SSA refers to the knowledge of the space environment, including location and function of space objects and space weather phenomena. It covers:
  • Space Surveillance and Tracking (SST) of man-made objects
  • Space weather monitoring
  • Near-earth objects monitoring
Features 
  • The space situational awareness (SSA) observatory will assist in tracking any activity in space including that of space debris and military satellites hovering over the region.
  • The observatory will help to monitor events occurring in deep space, especially in the geostationary, medium-Earth, and high-Earth orbits.
  • The high-quality observations made will be complemented by observations of its partner ground-based sensor network.
  • With this data, it would be able to reduce the potential for collisions between satellites and other spacecraft by making more accurate predictions of their location, speed, and trajectory.
  • The observatory will give India indigenous capabilities to monitor space activity over the subcontinent providing a strategic advantage.
Source- Live Mint 

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