Abstract. The Ionospheric Prediction Service (IPS) was formed in 1947 to provide monthly prediction services for high frequency (HF) radio, in particular to support HF communications with the United Kingdom. It was quickly recognized that to be effective such a service also had to provide advice when ionospheric storms prevented HF communications from taking place. With the advent of the International Geophysical Year (IGY), short-term forecasts were also required for research programmes and the task of supplying the Australian input to these was given to Frank Cook, of the IPS, while Jack Turner, also of the IPS, supervised the generation of ionospheric maps to support high latitude HF communications. These two important IGY activities formed the platform on which all future IPS services would be built. This paper reviews the development of the Australian Space Forecast Centre (ASFC), which arose from these early origins.

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澳大利亚空间预报中心（ASFC）的发展

摘要。电离层预测服务（IPS）成立于1947年，旨在为高频（HF）无线电提供月度预测服务，尤其是支持与英国的HF通信。很快就认识到，当电离层风暴阻止发生HF通信时，这种服务也必须提供建议才能有效。随着国际地球物理年（IGY）的到来，还需要对研究计划进行短期预报，并将向澳大利亚提供这些信息的任务交给IPS的Frank Cook和IPS的Jack Turner负责监督电离层地图的生成，以支持高纬度HF通信。这两项重要的IGY活动构成了构建所有未来IPS服务的平台。