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Ohio Firm Helps Mitigate Threats Posed by Space Debris
Date: Jul 21, 2015
Source: SBIR.gov ( click here to go to the source)

Featured firm in this article: The Design Knowledge Company of Fairborn, OH



Most of us have heard the old adage "what goes up, must come down."

When it comes to space, dozens of countries now have satellites circling the globe, so we need to keep an eye on the skies due to the dangers posed by falling space debris.

The space surveillance mission falls to the U. S. Strategic Command Joint Functional Component Command for Space (JFCC Space).

Through its Joint Space Operations Center (JSpOC), artificial objects in the Earth's orbit are detected, tracked and identified ....