DSP 23 ‘visiting’ Hot Birds in orbit?
Submit on Friday, December 5th, 2008 05:59
Over the past few weeks, three geostationary satellites suddenly went out of control and started drifting slowly, theoretically posing the risk of a collision with operational satellites in the same orbit. The most problematic of these errant satellites is DSP 23 (a.k.a. USA 197), a Reuters report suggests.
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