Chinese and American agencies recently worked together to manoeuvre their satellites and prevent them from colliding with each other in a rare instance of collaboration to manage space traffic.
“We had a bit of a celebration because, for the first time, the Chinese National Space Agency reached out to us and said, 'We see a conjunction amongst our satellites. We recommend you hold still. We'll do the manoeuvre.' And that's the first time that's ever happened,” Alvin Drew, director for Nasa’s space sustainability programme, said at the International Astronautical Congress in Sydney.
