In the first incident of its kind, a European Space Agency (ESA) satellite was forced to perform an evasive maneuver Monday to avoid hitting a SpaceX spacecraft.
The ESA Aeolus Earth observation satellite fired its thrusters as part of a"collision avoidance maneuver," according to a statement from ESA.In its original path lay a satellite owned by Elon Musk's SpaceX that is part of the company's Starlink system, which aims to set up a constellation of thousands of satellites capable of beaming internet to every corner of the Earth.
— ESA Operations September 2, 2019 SpaceX says most of its internet satellites are fully functionalThese maneuvers take a long time to execute, and it will soon become impossible to manually avoid collisions in space as the number of satellites increases steeply, the agency tweeted.Starlink alone could involve thousands of satellites, and rival internet constellations from Amazon and OneWeb are also in the pipeline.
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