FAA Eager To Assume Satellite Tracking Role

Credit: Joint Space Operations Center: USAF
HOUSTON—The FAA is primed to work with the Pentagon and the White House to take over tracking the growing number of commercial satellites in space to protect them from orbital debris. If the incoming Trump administration endorses the move, this “space situational awareness” function, long filled by...

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