An operational approach to NEO hazard monitoring has been recently developed at European level within the framework of the Space Situational Awareness program (SSA) of the European Space Agency (ESA). Through federating European assets and profiting from the expertise developed in European universities and research centers, it has been possible to start the deployment of the so-called SSA-NEO segment. This initiative aims to provide a significant contribution to the worldwide effort to the discovery and characterization of the Near-Earth Object population, to the computation of the associated hazards, and to the study of the possible mitigation measures. The SSA-NEO segment is intended to work in close cooperation with and to be complemented by the other NEO-related programs of the European Commission. A major achievement in this respect has been the inauguration in May 2013 of the ESA NEO Coordination Centre located at ESRIN (Frascati, Italy), whose services and operations are discussed in detail.
European Operational Initiative on NEONear Earth Object (NEO) Hazard Monitoring
Handbook of Cosmic Hazards and Planetary Defense ; Kapitel : 50 ; 615-635
2015-01-01
21 pages
Aufsatz/Kapitel (Buch)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
AstDyS – Asteroid Dynamic Site , Asteroid hazard , Catalina observatory , CINEOS ground observatory , EARN database , ESRIN , European Commission , European Commission Horizon 2020 program , European Space Agency (ESA) , ESA NEO Coordination Centre , European Optical Ground Station at Tenerife , ESA “Wide Survey” Network , Gaia FUN-SSO (Follow-Up Network of Solar System Objects) , Impact monitoring , International Astronomical Union (IAU) , La Sagra Sky Survey , Minor Planet Center , Mitigation measures , Near-Earth Object (NEO) , NEODyS (NEO Dynamic Site) , NEOShield project Palermo Risk Scale , Pan-STARRS observatory , Priority List , Sentry system at JPL , Sky surveys , Spaceguard Central Node at INAF , Space Situational Awareness NEO segment Space Surveillance and Tracking (SST) Segment , Space Weather (SWE) Segment Engineering , Aerospace Technology and Astronautics , Natural Hazards , Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics) , Paleontology
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