Satellite Operators Seek Automated Control

Photograph: The control center for Globalstar's 48 on-line satellites and eight spares will have to handle a spacecraft contact every 90 sec. If one were to undertake a study of the way spacecraft are controlled from the ground, the Hubble Space Telescope would certainly represent the old way of...

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