If space authorities tracking Mir become aware of any potential danger, emergency radio announcements would advise citizens to stay indoors, the document said, according to Bild.
Since then, both military and commercial satellite operators have put more resources into tracking space debris.
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Both spacecraft make use of the US space agency's Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System (TDRSS) to speak to the ground and controllers do not want any conflicts.
The European Space Agency reported that its tracking station near Perth, Australia, received a signal from the probe this morning.
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The GOES-13 satellite, which is also known as GOES East, launched into space in 2006 and was responsible for tracking weather systems across the eastern United States while another GOES satellite monitored the country's western regions, according to NASA records.
We continued to a backstage area where mail trucks shared space with production crews at banks of monitors tracking the party already under way, as well as Mr. Craig's progress.
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The primary computer that controls critical station functions defaulted to a backup computer, but it was not letting the station communicate with Nasa's Tracking and Data Relay Satellites, the US space agency said.
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Satellite and space expert Dr Stuart Eves stressed the large uncertainties involved in tracking the "decay" of satellite orbits (their slow fall back into the Earth's atmosphere).
U.S. tracking sensors determined the missile collision created hundreds of pieces of space debris, according to a U.S. official at the time.
Should a gadget blog visit the space, however, the organization isn't particularly forthcoming with details about the actual tracking that occurs on Christmas Eve.
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