Space debris rendering. Credit: Adobe stock

Space Traffic Management (STM) โ€” the identification and deconfliction of potential mission-terminating collisions for operational spacecraft โ€” has gained attention as the population of operational satellites in low Earth orbit has dramatically increased.

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