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    "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/HEXN2ATY56FRW4RVGGQO6HAH22I2MG5U/",
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    "message_id": "13a03e8d-81c7-4a59-8455-2a51e6e679fc@nasanexmsp01.na.qualcomm.com",
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    "thread": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/thread/HBSEA5YT75AOQMTR5M3IXQ4R6OG7PCHR/",
    "sender": {
        "address": "antonio (a) qualcomm.com",
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    "sender_name": "Franklin Antonio",
    "subject": "[amsat-bb] Re: Satellites in collision",
    "date": "2009-02-13T16:43:32Z",
    "parent": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/DB6I6O3OBHCDL25THS5G47MXM4DVTAHO/",
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    "content": "At 03:27 AM 2/13/2009, Rich Dailey (gmail) wrote:\n>*If* the controllers of the Iridium satellite could alter it's orbit \n>slightly, ...\n\nThere's a great article in the International Herald \nTribune.  Unfortunately, IHT has also carried several other articles \nabout the collision with similar titles, so the good one is hard to \nfind.  Use this link.\n\n<http://www.iht.com/articles/reuters/2009/02/12/europe/OUKWD-UK-SPACE-COLLISION-USA.php>\n\nThis article discusses the \"what did they know\" aspect.  In fact it \nsays so much that it is confusing.  First it says they did not know \nin advance.\n\n\"Iridium didn't have information prior to the collision to know that \nthe collision would occur,\"\n\nThen it says they get 400 \"conjunction reports\" from \"US Strategic \nCommand Joint Space Operations Center\" per week (ie a notification \nthat an object will pass within 5 km of a satellite), implying that \nthey suffer from information overload.\n\nThen they say the reports aren't any good anyway.\n\n\"So the ability actually to do anything with all the information is \npretty limited,\"\n\n\"Even if we had a report of an impending direct collision, the error \nwould be such that we might manoeuvre into a collision as well as \nmove away from one,\"\n\nCongratulations to the author for pulling these quotes \ntogether.  Unfortunately, it still leaves the reader uncertain about \nwhat happened.\n\nThe first quote may be lawyer-speak.  After all, nobody tracks these \nobjects well enough to \"KNOW that the collision WOULD occur\".  That \nisn't the same as being warned that a one ton satellite is going to \nwhiz by within 5 km.\n\nWhen the first fellow says \"Iridium didn't have information prior\", \nis he saying the DOD missed this one, or is he saying, as in the \nother quotes, that the conjunction reports aren't accurate enough to \ntake action?  Could be either.\n",
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