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GPT Summary: Managing traffic in space is getting more complicated due to the increase in conjunction events, which is when two objects in space get dangerously close to each other, according to Professor Hugh Lewis, a co-director of the Centre of Excellence in In-situ and Remote Intelligent Sensing at the University of Southampton in England. SpaceX's Starlink is an example, which has already performed over 26,000 orbital avoidance maneuvers in the two-year period between Dec. 1, 2020 and Nov. 30, 2022. With more companies planning to launch satellites, things are set to get even more heated, warns Lewis. He commends SpaceX for its attitude to space safety but cautions that less than five years from now, Starlink satellites may run out of fuel due to the sheer number of avoidance maneuvers they will have to perform.



And Starlink satellites are designed to de-orbit when they run out of fuel.




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