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1 The Space Weather Community
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Interagency Working Group, the academic community, and the commercial space weather sector. The PROSWIFT Act also directs NOAA to develop "near real-time coronal mass ejection imagery, solar wind, solar imaging, coronal imagery, and other relevant observations required to provide space weather forecasts." In addition, it directs NOAA to consider enhancement of its space weather capabilities via "commercial solutions, prize authority, academic partnerships, microsatellites, ground-based instruments, and opportunities to deploy the instrument or instruments as a secondary payload on an upcoming planned launches." See, U.S.
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a Executive Office of the President, 2022, "Space Weather Research-to-Operations and Operation-to-Research Framework," Space Weather Operations, Research, and Mitigation Subcommittee Committee on Homeland and National Security of the National Science and Technology Council, https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/03-2022-Space Weather-R2O2R-Framework.pdf. b The President's FY 2022 budget requested $5 million for the SWPT, with construction to begin in 2022.
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Thus, he said, NASA and its Heliophysics Division is "uniquely poised to support the needs of the national and international space weather enterprise." The new NASA Space Weather Program is intended as a "national resource to unify space weather research and drive our understanding of its risks, impacts, and mechanisms." NASA has established four pillars (Figure 1-1) that support space weather within the Heliophysics Division: Investigation, Transition, Exploration, and Application.
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The Division of Physics supports plasma physics research relevant to Heliophysics. Recognizing space weather as a grand challenge in geosciences, Sharma described NSF's recently launched research opportunity, Advancing National Space Weather Expertise and Research toward Societal Resiliency (ANSWERS)
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. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NOAA's space weather activities as described by Talaat are based on the agency's charter, which calls for NOAA to build capacity to advance space weather policy, to accelerate growth in NOAA space weather services, and to apply an integrative and collaborative approach between space weather research and operations.
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In addition, NASA and NOAA recently signed an interagency agreement on NOAA providing space radiation environment support for all human spaceflight activities. This continues NOAA's long-time support for NASA's crewed space activities, including 24/7 space weather forecasts and alerts for the International Space Station, Artemis, Lunar missions, Lunar surface operations, and future Mars missions.
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SOURCE: Elsayed Talaat, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, presentation to workshop, April 11, 2022. R2O2R support at NOAA includes multi-agency coordination with its Space Weather Prediction Testbed and the interagency Community Coordinated Modeling Center (CCMC)
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NOTE: CCMC = Community Coordinated Modeling Center; NWS = National Weather Service; PROSWIFT = Promoting Research and Observations of Space Weather to Improve the Forecasting of Tomorrow Act; R2O2R = research to operations/operations to research; SWPC = Space Weather Prediction Center. SOURCE: Jinni Meehan, NOAA/National Weather Service, presentation to workshop, April 11, 2022.
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In support of the space domain awareness efforts, the Space Force is establishing a number of independent interagency agreements, which will cover data sharing between agencies, synchronizing data stores, establishing and using open architectures, and enabling all agencies to participate in capability improvements. An important interagency collaboration under discussion is the one involving NASA and NOAA on commercial space traffic management.
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. The first space weather proving ground being established under the R2O2R Framework is the Architecture for Collaborative Evaluation hosted at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
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Data on induced currents and magnetic field variability have been collected for strong events since May 2013 and will be made available through a public portal beginning in mid-2022. The North American electric industry recognizes the benefits from a strong collaboration between the space weather community and industrial stakeholders, which has facilitated both R2O and O2R processes.
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information, primarily for collision avoidance and space traffic management of satellites in low Earth orbit. The proving ground will be used to expand and mature SSA stakeholder and system requirements, support ongoing research and experimentation, and serve as a development environment for further operational applications and algorithms.
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The three panelists were Frances Bagenal of the University of Colorado, MacArthur Jones of the Naval Research Laboratory, and Edward Gonzalez of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. The panelists were asked to address three key questions: • What is the current state of the demographics within the space sciences workforce?
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Along these lines, the recent Decadal Survey for Astronomy and Astrophysics stressed that collecting, evaluating, and acting on demographic data was one of its seven essential goals. The 2011 AIP Solar, Space, and Upper Atmospheric Physicists Survey should be used as a benchmark point, and Bagenal suggested that the Heliophysics Decadal Survey should consider employing the AIP to conduct a demographics survey.
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2021. Planning the Future Space Weather Operations and Re search Infrastructure: Proceedings of a Workshop.
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