Letter | Steer clear of “collision avoidance”

In the story “Amazon gets key FCC approval for more than 3,000 LEO broadband satellites” (Feb. , the term “collision avoidance” is misused.  The implications of the term are that something the satellite operator did made any difference. Collision probability estimate is statistical. The threshold of 1 in 10,000 means that it is 9,999 times […]
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