The May 8-9, 2024 Space Weather Tabletop Exercise: Gauging our Nation’s Preparedness

Thursday, 16 January 2025: 12:15 PM-1:15 PM
341 (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
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This town hall will feature a moderated panel discussion with government officials on the planning, execution, and findings of the May 2024 Space Weather Table Top Exercise coordinated and hosted by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab (APL). This exercise – cosponsored by NASA, NOAA, NSF, and FEMA - unfolded over the course of two days and included key stakeholders across dozens of federal, local, and state department and agencies. The TTX focused on a hypothetical scenario involving a series of solar events that drove a range of adverse space weather effects on Earth and in near-Earth space. The TTX scenario incorporated solar and geomagnetic activity that resulted in multiple hazards, including intense radiation exposure to satellite, astronauts, and commercial aviation; radio communications outages and disruptions; loss of functionality or degraded performance of GPS; satellite failures; and local- to regional-scale power outages. The TTX studied a scenario that would hypothetically take place over approximately 8 days of scenario time from late January to early February 2028.

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