JAKARTA The National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN) emphasizes the importance of regular space weather observations. The reason is, environmental conditions in outer space also have an impact on humans.
Space storm is one of the natural phenomena that BRIN and other space agencies need to observe and research. When this phenomenon occurs, the charged energy released by the Sun will have an impact on the technology used by humans.
"In outer space, the storm that occurred was an energy storm loaded with the sun," said Rizal Suryana, a young expert researcher in the Ionosphere of BRIN, quoted on Monday, July 7. "The impact can be felt down to the technology we use everyday."
The affected technology is also diverse because this space storm will attack satellite operations and global-based navigation positioning systems (GPS). Thus, all applications requiring GPS will be constrained during the storm.
"One of the impacts is to reduce the accuracy of the GPS position. This will have an impact on daily activities, such as ordering online motorcycle taxis, sending food online, and navigation," Rizal explained.
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Given the magnitude of the impact of this space storm, BRIN made deep observations. Rizal revealed that the agency made observations in two main approaches, namely space-based and earth-based.
In line with this observation, BRIN is developing various strategic programs in the field of space science. One of them is the development of telescopes at the Timau National Observatory, East Nusa Tenggara.
This telescope is designed to observe celestial and satellite objects passing through space. BRIN is also developing a research tool called Callisto based on radio defined software (SDR), a space weather observer. This technology allows intensive monitoring of solar flares.
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