07.01.2017 - 19:23 [ Spaceflight 101 ]

Close Encounter: Warning of Possible Satellite Collision issued for Saturday Night

JSpOC did not identify the two satellites involved in Saturday’s conjunction but said the satellite operators were notified.
The publicly available SOCRATES conjunction assessment tool processes orbital data from all non-classified objects and shows a conjunction between the Transit 9 satellite and a piece of NOAA-16 debris at 21:53:54 UTC and analysis of non-public data shows possible candidate encounters between the DMSP F9 & OPS 3367A satellites and a potential head-on collision of DMSP F15 & Meteor 1-26 over Antarctica.