PROSWIFT Bill and the 2020 Space Weather Operations and Research
Infrastructure Workshop from The National Academies of Sciences,
Engineering, and Medicine
Abstract
The Space Weather Research and Forecasting Act (PROSWIFT) passed the
United States Senate in July 2020 and the House of Representative on
September 16; it directs NOAA to capture remote images of coronal mass
ejections (CMEs) with the Space Weather Follow-On at L1 (SWFO-L1)
mission. A workshop organized by an ad-hoc committee of the National
Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine had its second part
held in 9-11 September 2020 to discuss future space weather operations
and research infrastructure in the medium term. Discussions included LEO
constellations, measurements of GICs and future cislunar and
interplanetary measurements.