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Last quarter, our team discovered that tracking orbital debris was more complex than initially thought. With over 500,000 pieces of debris in Earth's orbit, the risk of collisions with operational spacecraft is increasingly high. I'll share our journey of building a system to track this debris using Python 3.12, Pandas 2.0, and Scikit-Spatial 1.5.
The Problem of Orbital Debris
When I first tried to tackle this problem, I realized that the sheer volume of data was overwhelming. We had to process thousands of debris objects' trajectories every second. Most documentation skips the hard part: handling this scale. Our initial approach using basic Python lists failed because the memory usage was too high.
Advanced Techniques for Data Processing
We then moved to using Pandas 2.0 for data manipulation. The `pandas.
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