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UK Space Agency funds tech for orbital awareness – Yahoo News Australia
Grants will promote ideas to detect, characterise and track the millions of objects moving overhead.
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 launched, there’s growing concern about the potential for collisions.
A big worry is the burgeoning population of redundant hardwa…
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