The Conception of the International Global Monitoring Aerospace System (IGMASS)

Abstract

These original materials – the conception of the International Global Monitoring Aerospace System(IGMASS) as a system for forecasting destructive natural phenomena and man-made disasters in order to guarantee social, economic, seismic, environmental and geophysical safety, the prevention of other global space threats, as well as the development of information-navigation and telecommunication resources for the planet for the benefit of all humanity – were developed by an innovative team of specialists of the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) and Russian Academy of Cosmonautics n.a. K.E. Tsiolkovsky (RAKTS). The proposal to create IGMASS was first openly expressed at the International Conference “Modern Space Technologies for the Prosperity of Humanity” (Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, 2007). Later it was reported at the International Scientific Forums “Space for Humanity” (Korolyov, Russia, 2008), “Advanced Space Systems and Applications” (Shanghai, China, 2008), at the Mediterranean Conference on Astronautics (Tunisia, 2008), and also at the Academic Day of the International Academy of Astronautics (Glasgow, Scotland, 2008). In 2009 a special international working group of experts (from the USA, France, Germany, Russia, Japan, Italy, India, China, Ukraine, Belarus, Bulgaria, and Tunisia) was formed within the IAA to study the possibility and prospects of the creation of IGMASS. The results of the work of this group were discussed and strongly supported by the heads of several national space institutions, the managers of leading enterprises of the rocket–space industry, outstanding scientists and administrators from more than two dozen countries during the First International Specialized Symposium on “Space and Global Security of Humanity,” which was held in November 2009 in Limassol (Cyprus).