Near-Collision Highlights Urgent Need for ‘Space Traffic Control’ as Low Earth Orbit Congestion Explodes
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
LOW EARTH ORBIT – The busiest highways on Earth are getting exponentially more crowded, and the consequences nearly resulted in a catastrophic crash this week. A SpaceX Starlink internet satellite was forced to execute an evasive maneuver, avoiding a collision with a newly deployed Chinese spacecraft by a perilous distance of just 200 meters (656 feet).
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