The in-orbit collision earlier this month that destroyed an Iridium communications satellite has prompted a call for a multinational space situational awareness network and the sharing of spacecraft position data to emulate the capability of automatic dependent surveillance - broadcast systems being developed for air traffic management.rnFollowing the 10 February collision between the Mdium-33 and a Russian Cosmos 2251 satellite thought to be in a degrading orbit, the Secure World Foundation proposed the idea of an international situational awareness network to the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space.rnSince the collision, international assumptions that the US military monitored all space objects have been shown to be wrong. It was US satellite operator Iridium that first detected the collision due to signal loss, not the US Air Force Space Command (AFSC), which operates the country's space situational awareness system. Iridium asked AFSC for an explanation.
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