Thanks for all answers. > Looks like the incident passed without issue. I just ran an analysis on > the last Space-Track elsets prior to the conjunction, which showed a miss > distance of about 3.9 Km. Pc was still about 5e-5 which is relatively > high > for manned flights. My guess is that SP data & NASA's ISS ephemeris > showed > a larger safety margin then what we see with GP data, or they likely > would > have done something. Sure, these things are carefully monitored. One or more close pass really occured, and well managed by both space agencies. A few press agencies were uselessly alarming and confusing. Cheers, T. Marais ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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