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ISS On-Orbit Status 29 August 2008



Submitted by keithcowing on Fri, 08/29/2008 - 15:23.

Conjunction Update: The conjunction with another Kosmos-2421 piece (#33248) tonight at 9:09pm EDT will not require a DAM (Debris Avoidance Maneuver). Based on more tracking, the object's trajectory is quite stable, with a predicted miss distance of 20.789 km, yielding a collision probability of 3.84E-10 (i.e., odds ~1:2,600,000,000), which moves the conjunction way out of the Red box (threshold 1:10,000).

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