Acknowledgements
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We thank the NOAA and Space Weather Prediction Centre for providing data from the GOES and DSCOVR satellites, Surrey Satellite Technology Limited for providing data from the SURF instruments on GIOVE-A, NASA and the Van Allen Probes team for providing data from the Van Allen Probes mission, and the German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam for providing the Kp index. We thank David Rodgers at ESA and Keith Ryden at the University of Surrey Space Centre for providing support and advice on all aspects of satellite risk.
We thank the US Space Weather Prediction Centre for use of the Relativistic Electron Forecast Model, and the European Space Agency for use of SHIELDOSE-2 and a web based version of the DICTAT code.
We also thank all those users who provided valuable feedback on the design and content of these web pages. In particular we thank Robin Gubby and David Wade (Atrium Space Insurance Consortium), Mike Maran (AXA XL), Dave Pitchford (SES), Ewan Haggarty (Airbus Defence and Space), Andrew Monham (EUMETSAT), John Burley, Paul Iliffe and Daniel O'Hara (INMARSAT), Johan Ideström (OHB System AG), Daniel Tye (Surrey Satellite Technology Limited) and Timothy Finn (Telespazio Vega Deutschland GmbH) at the European Space Operations Centre who provided input during the development phase between April 2017 and October 2018.
This work was carried out by the British Antarctic Survey and DH Consultancy in collaboration with the UK Met Office under contract from the European Space Agency.