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Space Weather Forecast Center, SWFC

The Space Weather Forecast Center (SWFC) pioneers space weather operational research projects, technologies, and forecasts in China and has been acting as one of the Regional Warning Centers (RWCs) for the International Space Environment Services (ISES) since 1992. SWFC acquires expertise in modeling space environment that may impact spacecraft and facilitates space weather prediction applications. Its repository covers a broad range of space environments relevant to (including but not limited to) atmosphere, ionosphere and radio propagation, space plasma and radiation, and deep space with the latter mainly referring to the interplanetary space or the space close to the Sun and celestial objects in the solar system.
The center endeavors to construct state-of-the-art architecture design for space environmental technology systems, to standardize space environmental database, and to promote the transformation process from models to operational services. It also solicits commercial space environmental technology systems, numerical simulation platform, prediction and analysis tools, and educational services to space agencies and other potential users.
To keep up with the demand raised by state-led manned space programs, satellite operations, and other deep space explorations when facing space environmental complexities and challenges, SWFC utilizes its intelligence and models or tools in possess to analysis or predict space environmental events, parameters, and the consequent spacecraft effect. The diagnosis and sometimes fault prognosis for spacecraft anomaly and failure that may be due to space environmental variation is part of the service packages, along with customized or dedicated prediction products supporting space missions which strive into the deep progressively. The research team has been assigned multiple tasks to provide safeguard services for China Space Station (CSS), Chang' e-7, Strategic Priority Program on Space Science, etc.