AFFECTS: Advanced Forecast For Ensuring Communications Through Space

AFFECTS is a space research project under the seventh framework programme of the European Union. The natural hazards of space weather have the potential to catastrophically disrupt the operations of technological systems. In the AFFECTS project European and US scientists are developing an advanced prototype space weather warning system to safeguard the operation of telecommunication and navigation systems on Earth against the threat of solar storms in the timeline of March 2011 until February 2014.