Technology and Digital Systems
The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI)
Risk Academy, a Nexortium programmeTechnology and Digital SystemsDepartment of Cyber, Digital and Space Systems
Positioning, navigation, timing, satellite communication, space weather and debris
Space systems, space weather and navigation covers the satellites, ground segments and services that provide positioning, navigation, timing and communication, and the risks to them from space weather, debris, interference and attack.
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Twin figures for West Cornwall: Goonhilly and the Porthcurno cable landings, counted from its layers at their stated dates.
For Space systems, space weather and navigation: the faculty's twin of the Lizard and Penwith on the planet map, the globe and in 3D. Pick a generator, switch layers, run the instruments; every layer prints its provider and date.
Drag to move, right drag or Shift with a drag to turn and tilt, Ctrl with the wheel to zoom. Keyboard: arrows move, Shift with arrows turn and tilt, + and - zoom, 0 resets, V steps through the views, Escape clears.
Flat plan of the same data: relief as contours from the inline grid, the mapped ground infrastructure by kind, the mapped cables and the numbers below. The 3D twin opens on devices with WebGL once its data and library have been checked.
The map loads from this site as it nears the view (MapLibre 6.9.1, checked by hash).
The discipline teaches orbit propagation with SGP4 from published element sets and pass prediction for a ground station, the faculty's instrument on the Goonhilly dishes of the twin, link and ground-segment resilience, holdover when timing is lost, space weather read from the planetary Kp and Dst indices against the services that depend on it, jamming and spoofing of navigation signals, orbital debris and the mitigation requirements of ISO 24113:2023, and space governance and data policy. A graduate can propagate an orbit and compute a station's passes, state the dependency of a critical service on timing and the holdover it needs, and read a geomagnetic storm forecast against those dependencies.
This area covers the satellites, ground segments and services that provide positioning, navigation, timing and communication, and the risks to those space assets from space weather, debris, interference and attack. It is taught in the department of Cyber, Digital and Space Systems, Faculty of Technology and Digital Systems, through courses still to be authored.
8 subtopics, taught across its courses and labs.
Not yet taught by a course: Space weather risk and degraded operations; Space system dependency and resilience.
Recent developments in space systems, space weather and navigation, each with its source; sources checked on 16 October 2026. Summaries are short readings of the source; follow the link for the full account.
News and research as they are published, per discipline, with the faculty's other tools.
The newest research, preprints, news and humanitarian reports for Space systems, space weather and navigation, each with its source and date, load here. Open the research and news hub
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