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Taking Aim at the Spy Satellite

For Navy and NASA, What Goes Up Must Come Down

NASA'S Mission Control starts studying the possibility of performing a collision avoidance maneuver when the chance of collision reaches one in 100,000. NASA has an orbital debris group that is on call 24 hours a day if a satellite breaks up in orbit. They have put the odds of a collision with debris from the rogue satellite at one in 50,000 for the space station.

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