Article 4PH7N SpaceX Says a 'Bug' Prevented It From Receiving Warning of Possible Satellite Collision

SpaceX Says a 'Bug' Prevented It From Receiving Warning of Possible Satellite Collision

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George Dvorsky
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The European Space Agency was forced to perform a "collision avoidance maneuver" to prevent its Aeolus spacecraft from potentially smashing into one of Elon Musk's Starlink satellites, in what is quickly becoming an all-too-common occurrence. According to SpaceX, it never received the expected alert that a collision"

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