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New space radar in Costa Rica can track even tiny orbital debris – Yahoo Finance Australia

There’s a new giant space radar in Costa Rica that can track orbital debris as small as two centimeters.

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There’s a new giant space radar in Costa Rica that can track orbital debris as small as two centimeters. It was built by LeoLabs, a company that provides commercial radar tracking services for objects in Low Earth Orbit, which has declared the site fully operational less than a year after breaking ground. LeoLabs CEO Dan Ceperley said it’s the “most advanced commercial space radar of its kind” one that’s capable of tracking objects the size of a golf ball traveling at up 30,000 kilometers per hour. 

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