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18 Oct

Naseby radar helps satellites avoid colliding with space junk

Alexandra
Friday, October 18, 2019

Central Otago has joined the billon dollar space economy after a state-of-the art space radar was unveiled this week.

Californian company LeoLabs has built a radar on a Maniototo farm near Naseby, which has the ability to track space debris as small as two centimetres

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