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Space Weather Integrated Monitoring and Surveillance Systems( SAGANS-SWIMS) Sashikanth Rapeti, N Mishra, Ansuman Babu A Proposal for the Fundamental Structure of South American GPS Augmented Navigation System - Space Weather Integrated Monitoring and Surveillance Systems( SAGANS-SWIMS) Sashikanth Rapeti, N Mishra, Ansuman Babu To cite this version: Sashikanth Rapeti, N Mishra, Ansuman Babu. A Proposal for the Fundamental Structure of South American GPS Augmented Navigation System - Space Weather Integrated Monitoring and Surveil- lance Systems( SAGANS-SWIMS). 2019. hal-02082630 HAL Id: hal-02082630 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02082630 Preprint submitted on 28 Mar 2019 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. (Abbreviation) Journal Name Vol. XXX, No. XXX, 2013 A Proposal for the Fundamental Structure of South American GPS Augmented Navigation System – Space Weather Integrated Monitoring and Surveillance Systems( SAGANS-SWIMS) Sashikanth Rapeti1 India Bhubaneswar India Ansuman Babu3 Shakti N Mishra2 Bhubaneswar GITAM India Bhubaneswar Abstract—This particular paper is all about the introductory that drive Brazil ahead in the South American continent in the details of the theoretical and technical structure of the South Space sector [6], followed by Argentina which are the largest American GPS Augmented Navigation System – Space Weather economies in the continent. Brazil ( collaborating with China – Integrated Monitoring and Surveillance Systems( SAGANS- CBERS , in terms of Earth Resource satellites) and Argentina SWIMS) which will undoubtedly be the most robust navigation, have the maximum number of satellites – combined as well as communication, surveillance and weather monitoring systems in in each specific area individually. Peru launched a satellite the entire continent of Latin America, which will cater to the which is dedicated to different applications [7]. Peru had been diversified requirements of people in various sectors such as very active in developing programs like INCA at UCH, and agriculture, Science, engineering and technology, communication, with nano-satellite and pico-satellite technology in different navigation, education, militaries and defense systems, governmental policies regarding the best utilization of natural universities [8]. Aerospace technology is achieving new resources. frontiers in the country at a good pace [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14]. In this connection, proposals were made regarding small Keywords— SAGANS – SWIMS – South American GPS satellite network for the Peruvian region [15] and the Augmented Navigation System – Space Weather Integrated nanosatellite ‘Chasqui 1’ was launched with the help of Russia Monitoring and Surveillance Systems, Space Sandwich, Deep [16]. Colombia entered the space race in the continent with the Space Segmentation, GEES segmentation. formation of Colombian Space Commission [17] [18]. The small landlocked country ‘Bolivia’ had only one satellite to its I. INTRODUCTION credit, as aerospace technology is being promoted in the Most of the countries in the Latin American Continent country [19][20]. Bolivia even had formed its own space possess their own unique and distinct space satellites on agency and launched a satellite mainly for communication Communication, Earth Observation, Science, Technology and purposes. Ecuador, being a small country to the north of Peru is Education. It is worth-noting that all the countries that had their very active in space and has a Civilian Space Agency whose space satellites launched, possess their own unique strategic director is Cdr. Ronnie Nader who is the only astronaut of that goals in the space arena in the continent, thereby collaborating country [21]. The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela also with space agencies in either Asia ( China, India etc), ESA[1], entered the South American Space race [22]. Of course, there CNES (FRANCE) , NASA etc. The following table provides are many challenges and opportunities in the space and the number of satellites for each country which mostly are aerospace arena in the Latin American Continent [23]. Since, launched, some of them are yet to be launched at the earliest. every country in the continent has its own space program, Paraguay still needs to launch a satellite of its own. The main Argentina with the Support of Brazil had put forward a areas explored are the Communications, Earth observation, proposal for a common space agency for entire continent [24]. Science, Technology and Education. Every country in the Many sites provide good details of the various space missions continent of Latin America is equipped with their own unique of the countries of the world (of which some examples are state of-the-art facilities regarding their space missions. Brazil provided )https://eoportal.org/web/eoportal/home , tops the list in all the three areas[2] having its own space https://space.skyrocket.de/directories/sat_c.htm program [3], AEB ( BRAZILIAN SPACE AGENCY)[4] and http://www.earth-observation-directory.com/missions/ INPE [5] (NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR SPACE RESEARCH) are two premier space research organizations 1 | P a g e www.thesai.org (Abbreviation) Journal Name Vol. XXX, No. XXX, 2013 and the basic details are outlined in these sites, along with the Monitoring and Surveillance Systems) , which is a separate specific purposes accomplished by those missions. module of SAGANS-SWIMS. This segment will collect the data from two space satellite missions – SDEM ( Sun Dynamics Explorer Mission) and UHPE ( Ultra High Energy TABLE I. NUMBER OF SATELLITES LAUNCHED BY EACH COUNTRY IN Particle). These two space satellite missions will station LATIN AMERICA themselves at 1.5 million km from the Earth in a symmetrical way, to the east and to the west of the Earth and will be strictly NUMBER OF SATELLITES parallel to the equatorial plane of the Earth, thereby the two spacecrafts will get a good picture of the solar wind interaction with the magnetic field of the Earth at the polar regions. Both COUNTR COMMUNICATIO EARTH SCIENCE, the spacecrafts will be at the GEES ( Gravitational Y NS OBSERVATIO TECHNOLOG N Y AND Equilibrium of the Earth Sun) east-west points, parallel to the EDUCATION equatorial plane of the Earth as shown in the figure below. Brazil 21 14 ( series) 13 Argentina 12 8 ( series) 14 Peru - 1 4 Chile - 1 3 Ecuador - - 3 Colombia - - 3 Bolivia 1 - - Venezuela 1 2 - Uruguay - - 1 * (Courtesy: https://space.skyrocket.de/directories/sat_c.htm) II. METHODOLOGY The SAGANS-SWIMS is but a unique project in this Fig. 1. SDEM and UHPE at the equatorial plane on the east and west regard in terms of integrating the various fields like GEES points.( Figure only for representation purposes only) communication, navigation, earth observation etc., for which every country relies heavily upon technologically, especially in *courtesy: Google images the continent of South America. The continent needs autonomy in the space and aerospace sectors [25]. The detailed review of 2) Magnetically Turbulent Space (Zone of) Earth various space activities in the continent are described in a good Segmentation (MTSE) segmentation: This Space Zone of the paper by Bruno Victorino et al., [26]. At this crucial juncture, Earth is magnetically active and turbulent all the time and is SAGANS – SWIMS will play a much significant role by technically known as Magnetosphere of the Earth which is integrating the Communication, Earth Observation, Science, spread typically up-to an altitude of 60,000 km from the Technology and Education fields, in the areas such as airborne mapping, ocean floor mapping, agriculture, application of Civil Earth’s crust. This Space-zone is active even during quiet engineering like structural deformations, Vehicle and way- geomagnetic disturbance periods. Therefore, a spacecraft point navigation, Transit systems in transportation, earthquake known as MEE ( Magnetosphere Earth Explorer) will perform and seismic studies, disaster warning systems, natural resources a polar orbit revolution around the Earth perpendicular to the monitoring, marine seismic surveying, precision farming, open equator passing through the Latin American Continent. This pit mining, Oil and natural gas monitoring in the coastal Spacecraft ( satellite) will monitor the magnetosphere region regions of the continent in a more sophisticated manner. Indeed orbiting at an altitude of 56000 km from the Earth’ s surface by SAGANS-SWIMS can be a new beginning for a South getting the data from UHPE and SDEM regarding the energetic American Space Era [27]. charged particle influx and its interaction with the Earth’s The fundamental technical structure of SAGANS-SWIMS magnetic field lines, the compressing of the field lines by the is as follows: solar wind, measuring the change in the Earth’s magnetic field etc. A. SPACE SANDWICH ( SPACE SEGMENTATION) : This segmentation has two parts, completely handled by SWIMS. B. ATMOSPHERE SANDWICH ( ATMOSPHERE 1) Deep Space segmentation or Gravitational Equilibrium SEGMENTATION ): of Earth Sun (GEES) segmentation: This deep space segment This segmentation also has two parts: will be purely handled by SWIMS ( Space
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