What do you mean by space situational Awareness? How ISRO doing doing its space situational awareness? Give with example?

Back ground :All nations today rely on satellites for vital communication services, navigation, weather prediction, and scientific research. With increasing number of objects in space – useful or otherwise – the need for managing the Space Commons wisely is gaining importance. In the last few decades India has emerged as a Space power. With increasing dependence on her space assets for many of her development activities, India needs to protect her Space assets. As technological changes lower entry barriers, private players are expected to play greater role in the realm of small satellites. Kessler Syndrome and its effects on our space assets have to be addressed whether we like it or not.
U.S.A, Russia and Europe have by and large dominated the SSA scene and China is fast catching up. Time has come for India as well as other space faring nations to ponder whether the current structure of the world political order would allow the emergence of a universal SSA governance regime.
Role of ISRO :Project NETRA
ISRO has set up a Directorate of Space Situational Awareness and Management aiming at protecting high valued space assets from space debris close approaches and collisions. To carryout systematically all activities related to SSAM, a control centre is being established at Bengaluru.
Key functions:
  1. The control centre would host a range of activities related to the protection of Indian space assets from inactive satellites, pieces of orbiting objects, near earth asteroids and adverse space weather conditions. 
  2. It would also assimilate the tracking data of inactive satellites from indigenous observation facilities and generates useful information from bare observations through analysis.

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