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Everyone remembers their first time: ESA satellite dodges 'mega constellation'

Richard 12 Silver badge

Starlink hasn't been up long

Why did they put Starlink in an orbit that comes so close to an existing bird so quickly?

Starlink has only been up a couple of months so surely this close encounter should have been predictable with reasonable certainty.

Who is doing the equivalent of planning permission, and why was SpaceX granted permission? Or is this Starlink in a different orbit to the one they had permission for?

What are the rules of the road as to who does the avoidance In Space!, anyway? On the high seas the smaller (powered) ship is required to give way unless it can't. In this case it seems the bigger one moved - is that usual rules, or special in this case?

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