NASA revising Station-handling procedures after debris snafu

U.S. and Russian space operations managers have decided to prepare collision avoidance commands for the International Space Station in advance, after it took almost 12 hours to prepare commands last month as a spent rocket body threatened to intersect the Station's orbit. Ultimately the orbital...

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