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Tipoffs for Tucson, Arizona (City) Newsletter for Wednesday November 13, 2024 ( 1 items )  

University of Arizona: New 'Spectral Fingerprint' Atlas of Satellites Aims to Improve Space Security
TUCSON, Arizona, Nov. 13 (TNSres) -- The University of Arizona issued the following news release: University of Arizona researchers have created the first astronomical equivalent of a fingerprint database for satellites, a critical first step toward easily identifying human-made objects in the increasingly crowded geostationary orbit. This database, or spectral atlas, includes 96 satellites in the geostationary orbit, or GEO - home to satellites used for communications, imaging, navigation and  more