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Default NASA funds research into self-building spaceships

"Tom Del Rosso" wrote in message
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Jim Wilkins wrote:

Not if their eccentricity and inclination differ.


Not many satellite orbits are very eccentric, but there is still a
much greater chance of collision than between 2 satellites.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molniya_orbit