Payton Sounds Warning On Small Satellites

NEW YORK — Defunct microsatellites pose a growing space debris risk and must be better tracked in orbit, according to Gary Payton, deputy undersecretary of the U.S. Air Force for space. “Some people call these microsats,” Payton said during the Space Foundation’s Space Business Forum here June 4....

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