Space Surveillance and Tracking Services

Information

The Space Age has generated a huge number of man-made hazards to complement the naturally occurring ones. Space Weather can and does directly affect these objects, thus compounding the risks they pose and making them less predictable and harder to follow. Orbiting hardware can take a long time to decay and if present launch rates persist then certain orbital regimes will soon start to become highly congested and further increase the risk of collision.

Services

Atmospheric estimates for drag calculations Estimate of atmospheric density in the past years and predicted in near real-time.
Archive of geomagnetic and solar indices for drag calculation Database of past values of solar and geomagnetic indices relevant to drag calculation
Forecast of geomagnetic and solar indices for drag calculation Provides forecast of geomagnetic and solar indices for drag calculation.
Nowcast of ionospheric group delay Under development

Artist's impression of the debris objects in orbit around Earth. (© ESA - P. Carril)