Planning the Future Space Weather Operations and Research Inf... - 9780309693660

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Planning the Future Space Weather Operations and Research InfrastructureProceedings of the Phase II Workshop\nAuthor(s): National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, Space Studies Board, Committee on Space Weather Operations and Research Infrastructure Workshop, Phase II\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: National Academies Press, United States\nImprint: National Academies Press\nISBN-13: 9780309693660, 978-0309693660\nSynopsis\nAffecting technological systems at a global-scale, space weather can disrupt high-frequency radio signals, satellite-based communications, navigational satellite positioning and timing signals, spacecraft operations, and electric power delivery with cascading socioeconomic effects resulting from these disruptions. Space weather can also present an increased health risk for astronauts, as well as aviation flight crews and passengers on transpolar flights.\n\nIn 2019, the National Academies was approa.