Two satellites just avoided a head-on smash. How close did they come to disaster?
- Written by Gregory Cohen, Associate Professor, Western Sydney University
The now defunct Infrared Astronomical Telescope was one of the satellites involved in the near-collision.NASA/JPL
It appears we have missed another close call between two satellites – but how close did we really come to a catastrophic event in space?
It all began with a series of tweets from LeoLabs, a company that uses radar to track...
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