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Europe spotlights space weather hazards

ESA's Space Situational Awareness programme is taking centre stage during the ninth European Space Weather Week, with experts showcasing a recently opened space weather service centre and highlighting European space weather research and development.
European Space Weather Week, 5-9 November 2012, is the largest annual European space-weather conference and brings together scientists, engineers, industry and policy-makers in Brussels, Belgium to discuss the latest advances in the crucial topic of solar effects on Earth.
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  Amateur astronomers boost ESA's asteroid hunt

A partnership with the UK's Faulkes Telescope Project promises to boost the Agency's space hazards research while helping students to discover potentially dangerous space rocks.
ESA's Space Situational Awareness (SSA) programme is keeping watch over space hazards, including disruptive space weather, debris objects in Earth orbit and asteroids that pass close enough to cause concern.
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The Space Situational Awareness Preparatory Programme (SSA-PP) was authorised at the November 2008 ESA Ministerial Council and formally launched 1 January 2009. After an initial three-year period to 2011, full operational services will be implemented in 2012-19 upon approval.
The objective of the SSA programme is to support Europe's independent utilisation of, and access to, space through the provision of timely and accurate information, data and services regarding the space environment, and particularly regarding hazards to infrastructure in orbit and on the ground.
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UK technology scans the skies for space hazards

UK space surveillance technology is being used in ESA's first co-ordinated space tracking campaign - part of a larger programme to provide up to date and accurate information on space hazards in Earth's orbit. These hazards stem from possible collisions between objects in orbit, harmful space weather and potential strikes by natural objects that cross Earth's orbit.
UK involvement in the tracking campaign is through the UK Space Agency and includes Space Insight's Starbrook - an innovative optical sensor system for space surveillance, and the Science and Technology Facilities Council's Chilbolton Observatory - one of the world's most advanced meteorological radar experimental facilities.
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