Satellite orbit

Tasmanian observatory’s telescope mount to help avert collisions in space

Thousands of satellites and hundreds of thousands of objects orbiting Earth, such as debris and discarded rocket bodies, are being tracked to avoid collisions. Source: ESA/NASA, Flickr. A Tasmanian observatory has a new telescope mount that will help track fast-moving satellites and prevent catastrophic space collisions. The Greenhill observatory at Bisdee Tier near Hobart is…