Tag: GPS Satellites

  • Canadian Detects And Tracks Over 4,000 Orbiting Objects

    Canadian Detects And Tracks Over 4,000 Orbiting Objects

    When Port Dover astronomer Michael Earl thought about how to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Sputnik, he did not know what he was in for. He decided that over the year 2007, he would detect and track 1,957 individual satellites. He managed to detect 2,053 of them; nearly 100 over his initial goal. The project…