India's First Commercial SSA Observatory
India's first commercial space situational awareness (SSA) observatory to monitor space activity is going to be set up by Digantara in the Garhwal region of Uttarakhand.
- At present, India provides a limited range of Multi-Object Tracking Radar at the Sriharikota range in Andhra Pradesh.
- For additional data, it accesses NORAD (North American Aerospace Defence Command) and various other sources for SSA.
About SSA
- The observatory will be the first-of-its-kind in the region, set up to augment the start-up’s SSA capabilities.
- It will be strategically positioned to serve global space traffic management operations.
- The observatory will monitor activities ....
Do You Want to Read More?
Subscribe Now
To get access to detailed content
Already a Member? Login here
Take Annual Subscription and get the following Advantage
The annual members of the Civil Services Chronicle can read the monthly content of the magazine as well as the Chronicle magazine archives.
Readers can study all the material since 2018 of the Civil Services Chronicle monthly issue in the form of Chronicle magazine archives.
Science & Technology
- 1 Fresh Cases of Primary Amoebic Meningoencephalitis (PAM)
- 2 NASA Unveils Surya AI Model to Decode Sun’s Behaviour
- 3 India Successfully Conducts First Integrated Air Drop Test (IADT-1)
- 4 Himalayan Outpost for Planetary Exploration (HOPE) in Ladakh
- 5 Bharatiya Antariksh Station (BAS) Module Unveiled
- 6 Successful Maiden Flight Tests of IADWS
- 7 WHO Declares Hepatitis D as Carcinogenic
- 8 AI Index 2025
- 9 NASA’s Lunar Nuclear Reactor Plan
- 10 India’s First Indigenous Commercial EO Constellation
