The U.S. Space Surveillance Network tracks tens of thousands of artificial satellites orbiting Earth. But no such group monitors traffic around the moon, or in the cislunar space space in between.Now University of Arizona has received a $7.5 million grant from the U.S. Air Force Research Lab Space Vehicles Directorate to do exactly that.
Last month, a private satellite tracking company spotted a Chinese spacecraft apparently grabbing and throwing a dead satellite away into a "graveyard" orbit.
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