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Disaster Looms As President Trump Plans To Defund Satellite Crash Avoidance Service
The U.S. Space Force and the entire private space industry are telling Congress this is a recipe for disaster.
As the country's air traffic control issues reached a tipping point earlier this year, President Donald Trump attempted to shift all of the blame for the decades-long systemic decline to the Biden administration. Without funding for space traffic coordination, U.S. commercial and government satellite operators would face greater risks – putting critical missions in harm's way, raising the cost of doing business, and potentially driving U.S. industry to relocate overseas." The Space Force no longer wants to devote resources to serving as a call center to inform satellite operators of potential collisions, allowing its squadrons to protect American interests in orbit.
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