{"id":829,"date":"2025-12-12T16:00:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T15:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/italiarappicao.esteri.it\/it\/?p=829"},"modified":"2025-12-12T16:00:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T15:00:14","slug":"space-weather-and-air-transport-safety-why-space-weather-information-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/italiarappicao.esteri.it\/en\/news\/dalla_rappresentanza\/2025\/12\/space-weather-and-air-transport-safety-why-space-weather-information-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"Space Weather and Air Transport Safety \u2014 Why Space Weather Information Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 data-start=\"210\" data-end=\"1449\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The topic in general<\/span><\/h3>\n<p data-start=\"210\" data-end=\"1449\">In recent years, attention to the issue of \u201cspace weather,\u201d that is, the space meteorological conditions originating from solar activity, has increased significantly. The phenomenon is driven by the Sun, and when the Sun is highly active (as during this period, namely the peak of solar cycle \u201925), events such as geomagnetic storms, solar flares, and ionospheric disturbances may occur.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"210\" data-end=\"1449\">These events have real and potentially significant impacts on the technologies used in flight (satellites, HF and SATCOM communication systems, GNSS for navigation and surveillance), and they may also increase radiation exposure for passengers and crew.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"210\" data-end=\"1449\">Other particular cases \u2014 foremost among them the recent one involving the Airbus 320 \u2014 have received considerable media coverage and were promptly addressed by the competent Institutions (for further details: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airbus.com\/en\/newsroom\/press-releases\/2025-11-airbus-update-on-a320-family-precautionary-fleet-action?utm_source=chatgpt.com\">Link<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"210\" data-end=\"1449\">For modern civil aviation, awareness and availability of information on this matter are essential to ensure the safety, efficiency and regularity of flights. It is equally important that the general public can rely on precise, up-to-date and trustworthy sources of information on the topic.<br data-start=\"1391\" data-end=\"1394\" \/>For further details: <a href=\"https:\/\/wmo.int\/newsletter-issue-12025-june-2025?utm_source=chatgpt.com#icao-sec-news\">World Meteorological Organization<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3 data-start=\"1456\" data-end=\"1553\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The new regulatory framework: the evolution of ICAO\u2019s \u201cspace weather\u201d information service<\/span><\/h3>\n<p data-start=\"1555\" data-end=\"2536\">With the recent adoption of Amendment 82 to ICAO Annex 3, effective from 27 November 2025, the obligation for Contracting States to provide a meteorological information service that includes \u201cspace weather\u201d is formally established.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1555\" data-end=\"2536\">Together with Amendment 82, the first edition of PANS MET (Doc 10157) has also entered into force, setting out the procedures and technical specifications for the provision of aeronautical meteorological service, including the \u201cspace weather\u201d service.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1555\" data-end=\"2536\">This regulatory framework renders operational and mandatory the global space weather information service (SWIS \u2013 Space Weather Information Service), currently managed by designated centres (global and regional) that constantly monitor solar activity and ionospheric conditions, issue advisories (SWXA) for the benefit of aircraft, airports, air traffic controllers, and meteorological centres, operating with 24-hour shifts, mutual back-up and global coordination.<br data-start=\"2507\" data-end=\"2510\" \/>For further details: <a href=\"https:\/\/community.wmo.int\/media\/news\/aviation-news-2025-09-05-icao-publishes-new-editions-of-annex-3-and-pans-met\">Link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3 data-start=\"2543\" data-end=\"2643\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The global scenario: the \u201cspace weather\u201d theme at the centre of ICAO\u2019s 236th Council Session<\/span><\/h3>\n<p data-start=\"2645\" data-end=\"3334\">During the 236th Session of the ICAO Council, held between October and November 2025, the new standard established through Amendment 82 to Annex 3 was confirmed, including the strengthening of the SWIS (space weather information service) for the entire civil aviation sector worldwide. In the discussion, it was highlighted how, thanks to SWIS and to the designated global\/regional centres (global\/regional SWXCs), it is possible to ensure continuous surveillance \u2014 24 hours a day, 7 days a week \u2014 of solar and ionospheric activity, and to provide operational advisories to airports, air traffic service providers (ATC), airlines and crews, in a globally coordinated and harmonized manner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The topic in general In recent years, attention to the issue of \u201cspace weather,\u201d that is, the space meteorological conditions originating from solar activity, has increased significantly. 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