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Possible Satellite Collision on 10/16/2020 UTC

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POSTED BY: Jeffrey Bryant
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POSTED BY: Jeffrey Bryant

Hi Jeff.

Thank you so much for your swift answer!

Best, Per

PS It is not on purpose, that my name is "Updating Name" and neither that my profile pic is missing. Must be something wrong with my community profile...

Posted 6 years ago

I also followed the incident, both on Twitter at LeoLabs and using the above calculations. According to the above code, the satellites passed within 7.6km, while LeoLab claims that the near collision was within a few meters.

I don't know the company, other than from this event, but it seems that they have several radar trackers in multiple places on the Earth.

So, my question is who is correct, as the two methods are seperated by three orders of magnitude.

Best, Per

POSTED BY: Updating Name

Jeff, thanks for keeping us posted on this. According to the prediction above they would pass within 10 miles. It sure beats 10 feet!

POSTED BY: Richard Frost

I'm now hearing that 10 minutes after the possible collision, one of the satellites was detected as a single object so its sounding like the collision did not happen

POSTED BY: Jeffrey Bryant

FWIW, I regenerated the results with the latest TLEs and it shows them passing much closer than in the initial post.

POSTED BY: Jeffrey Bryant

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