India’s first observatory to monitor space activity to come up in Uttarakhand

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Category : Science and Tech Published on: August 24 2022

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Digantara, a space sector start-up of India, is going to set-up India's first commercial space situational awareness observatory in the Garhwal region of Uttarakhand, to track objects as small as 10 cm in size orbiting the earth.
The space situational awareness (SSA) observatory will assist in tracking any activity in space including that of space debris and military satellites hovering over the region.
At present, the United States is a dominant player in monitoring space debris.

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India’s first observatory to monitor space activity to come up in Uttarakhand