Making Space Safer

摘要

On Oct. 29, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) unveiled an action plan for the United States to address space weather. A gathering of more than 200 government, industry and academic leaders witnessed the unveiling of an interagency approach to deal with this little-appreciated natural threat. As OSTP Director John Holdren noted in his welcoming address, most people are well aware of risks associated with severe terrestrial weather. But most people are not aware that solar flares, intense solar particle bursts and powerful magnetic storms on Earth can devastate modern human technologies.