Safeguarding Space Assets
August 8 , 2019
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- ISRO is setting up a network of telescopes and radar to develop its own system to monitor space debris and safeguard its space assets.
- Currently ISRO has 50 functional satellites, including communication, navigation and surveillance satellites, in space.
- It depends on NORAD’s (North America Aerospace Defense Command) publicly available and inaccurate data for
- Keeping track of space debris
- Monitoring our active and passive (dead) satellites.
- The foundation stone for Space Situational Awareness Control Centre has been laid in Bengaluru.
- ISRO will set up telescopes and radars in four corners of the country.
- Telescope in Trivandrum, Mount Abu (Rajasthan), Deep North
- A radar in the northeast
- The network will be set up under the Directorate of Space Situational Awareness and Management.
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