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Advanced Forecast For Ensuring Communications Through Space
Start date:2011-03-01
End date:2014-02-28
Project Acronym:AFFECTS
Project status:Execution
Coordinator
| Organization name:GEORG-AUGUST-UNIVERSITAET GOETTINGEN STIFTUNG OEFFENTLICHEN RECHTS | |
| Administrative contact | Address |
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Name:Hiltraud |
WILHELMSPLATZ GOETTINGEN DEUTSCHLAND Region:NIEDERSACHSEN BRAUNSCHWEIG Göttingen |
| Tel:+49-551393058 | |
| Fax:+49-55139183058 | |
| E-mail:Contact | |
| URL:http://www.uni-goettingen.de | Organization Type: |
Description
Objective:
In this call the EU supports activities strengthening space foundations reducing the vulnerability of space assets from space weather events. Solar activity affects the entire Earth environment from the magnetosphere down to the ionosphere and even to the lower atmosphere climate system. The natural hazards of space weather do not only modify the atmosphere but also can catastrophically disrupt the operations of many technological systems, thus causing disruption to people's lives and jobs. The AFFECTS collaborative project uniquely addresses these key topics through state of the art analysis and modelling of the Sun-Earth Chain of Effects on the Earth's ionosphere and their subsequent impacts on communication systems.
Multipoint space observations enable world-leading experts at the highest level of interdisciplinary excellence to forecast the relevant space weather effects on the ionosphere quantitatively. The unique set of measurements from satellites in different orbits is complemented by dedicated ground-based monitoring of auroral electro-jet and iono-spheric activity.
The AFFECTS team consists of key European space weather research teams and the US Space Weather Prediction Center of NOAA. To date no dedicated space weather forecast system for iono-spheric applications exists in an operational manner, and thus this project would lead to an entirely new capability in Europe that is not only important for society but also does not exist elsewhere.
AFFECTS is an unprecedented project which in time of the expected next solar maximum around 2012 will provide advanced prediction, assessment and early warning capabilities of disruptive space weather events that are expected to be particularly poignant to society and thereby meets the needs of Europe's community of users. AFFECTS will provide Europe with the first advanced early warning and space weather forecast system to help European citizens mitigating the impact on its communication systems.
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Project Details
Start date:2011-03-01
End date:2014-02-28
Duration:36 months
Project Reference:263506
Project cost:2550245 EURO
Project Funding:1999893 EURO
Programme Acronym:
FP7-SPACE
Programme type:Seventh Framework Programme
Subprogramme Area:Security of space assets from space weather events
Contract type:Collaborative project (generic)
URL:http://www.affects-fp7.eu
Subject index:Security, Space & satellite research
Results for this Project
Documents for this Project
| Periodic Report - AFFECTS (Advanced forecast for ensuring communications through Space) | 20/09/2012 |
| Periodic Report - AFFECTS (Advanced forecast for ensuring communications through space) | 12/10/2012 |
Other participants
| Organization name:KONINKLIJKE STERRENWACHT VAN BELGIE | |
| Administrative contact | Address |
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Name:David |
Avenue Circulaire BRUXELLES BELGIQUE-BELGIË Region:REG.BRUXELLES-CAP./BRUSSELS HFDST. GEW. |
| Tel:+32-23730559 | |
| Fax:+32-23749822 | |
| E-mail:Contact | |
| URL:http://www.astro.oma.be | Organization Type: |
| Organization name:FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V | |
| Administrative contact | Address |
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Name:Maximilian |
Hansastrasse MUENCHEN DEUTSCHLAND Region:BAYERN OBERBAYERN München, Kreisfreie Stadt |
| Tel:+49-8912052721 | |
| Fax:+49-8912057534 | |
| E-mail:Contact | |
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| Organization name:DEUTSCHES ZENTRUM FUER LUFT - UND RAUMFAHRT EV | |
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Name:Doris |
Linder Hoehe KOELN DEUTSCHLAND Region:NORDRHEIN-WESTFALEN KÖLN Köln, Kreisfreie Stadt |
| Tel:+49-3067055-119 | |
| Fax:+49-3067055-126 | |
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| URL:http://www.dlr.de | Organization Type: |
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| Administrative contact | Address |
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Name:Aleksei |
GLUSHKOV PROSPEKT KYIV UKRAINE Region: |
| Tel:+380-933264229 | |
| Fax:+380-445264124 | |
| E-mail:Contact | |
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| Organization name:UNIVERSITETET I TROMSOE | |
| Administrative contact | Address |
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Name:Angelique |
Hansine Hansens veg TROMSOE NORGE Region:NORD-NORGE Troms |
| Tel:+47-77644045 | |
| Fax:+47-77644765 | |
| E-mail:Contact | |
| URL:http://uit.no/ | Organization Type: |
| Organization name:ASTRIUM GMBH | |
| Administrative contact | Address |
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Name:Axel |
LUDWIG-BOELKOW-ALLEE 801169 OTTOBRUNN DEUTSCHLAND Region:BAYERN OBERBAYERN München, Kreisfreie Stadt |
| Tel:+49-754584627 | |
| Fax:+49-75458184627 | |
| E-mail:Contact | |
| URL:http://www.space.eads.net | Organization Type: |
Record control number:97994
