Overview of the Space Weather Impact on the Navigation and Communication Systems

Abstract

This article summarizes and analyzes the space weather impact on the Earth´s surface, aviation – especially navigation and communication aids, satellite functions ensuring communication, and GPS function. Forecasting the geomagnetic storms, solar radiation storms, radio blackouts, X-ray flux, and others is difficult due to the high variability of the space weather conditions and sun activity. It can change every hour and the exact space weather conditions and the impact on aviation for the future are hard to predict. This article shows some predictions and historical data regarding space weather activity, where the stated values were collected from the NOAA page. The article states the daily maximums or the maximums of predicted phenomena activity. Because of the complexity and the facts mentioned above, the historical data and predictions show the summary and most important phenomena of the day. The article consists of 3 main chapters: 1. Space Weather 2. Space Weather Impact on Technological Vulnerability 3. Space Weather Condition Overview in Data. The last chapter in this article is a conclusion that consists of and mentions some information about the used alternative methods when a GPS lapse occurs. Even though there are some alternate systems, but still using satellite-based navigation and communication aids is still the first option, and space weather events highly affect the systems and are a big hazard for aviation.