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UK Space Agency funds tech for orbital awareness – BBC News
Grants will promote ideas to detect, characterise and track the millions of objects moving overhead.
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Artwork: D-Orbit’s carrier platform has cameras that could also look for nearby space debris
New approaches to tracking satellites and debris in orbit are to get a boost from the UK Space Agency.
UKSA is giving over £1m to seven firms to help advance novel sensor technologies and the smart algorithms needed to interpret their data.
Finding better ways to surveil objects moving overhead has become a high priority issue.
With more and more satellites being…
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