Satellite Operators Now Tracking Each Other’s Spacecraft

Credit: Orbital Sciences Corp.
A new cooperative data tool will help keep geostationary commercial communications satellites from colliding or causing signal interference, a service its initiators hope to extend to government spacecraft and satellites in low Earth orbit as well. Spurred in part by the February 2009 collision...

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