A brand new feather to be added in the crown of city of joy Kolkata, as
a specialized ultra modern centre of excellence in reading weather conditions
of the space to provide a support to air traffic on various polar routes to be
set up in Kolkata by the middle of 2013. The centre will be the first of its
kind in the whole country, as at present there are no such centres across the country.
India’s space science culture has improved a lot in recent times, and
this new centre of excellence is a burning example of that. The main focus of
the said centre will be on the areas of space weather especially in the
gravitational physics and mysterious solar system. Along with that the centre
will also study air traffic on polar routes; it would help in the functioning
of Global Positioning System (GPS) networks and numerous numbers of mobile satellites,
which are already placed in space.
Solar flares and Coronal Mass Ejections (CME) were two kinds of storms
that originated from the Sun itself. These storms exposed flights to huge
amounts of radiations over Polar Region. This is a big reason to worry, as it
can be very harmful with time.
It has to be mentioned that a few commercial flights, which are operated
from the airports of South Asia, Europe and North America generally flew over
the Polar Regions to cut short time and distance. It is easily understandable
that these flights can be affected by the said radiations, and that may lead to
serious trouble.
There are several important
factors because of which space scientists felt the importance of setting up
this type of centre of excellence. If the weather in the solar system was not
well then it would impact the functioning of the satellites in a continuous
manner. This could have caused an serious adverse effect on the GPS system and
mobile networks.
Union HRD Ministry of India already approved the centre, and it would
come up at the campus of Indian Institute of Science, Education and Research
(IISER).
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