The article explains the ESA is raising this issue because there is no such mechanism to perform “every 5 minutes” avoidance maneuvers right now. The current p

The article explains the ESA is raising this issue because there is no such mechanism to perform “every 5 minutes” avoidance maneuvers right now. The current process is manual and slow. 22,000 satellites in that orbit mean that picking up the telephone to call each other to say “hey are you going to move your satellite to avoid X possible collision on Y date?” isn’t going to scale, so they’re saying that a better system needs to be put in place. We’ve seen just recently with multiple US Navy collisions causing loss of life that using “common sense” to avoid collisions instead of being prepared and planning doesn’t always work out well..