The Federal Aviation Administration appears poised to take on a new role some agency officials have coveted for years: serving as traffic cops in space. Since at least 2013 there has been on-again, off-again debate in Washington about which civilian agency should take over the Defense Department’s responsibility to warn commercial-satellite operators about collision hazards from tens of thousands of man-made and natural objects...

Source: Wall Street Journal September 18, 2016 22:52 UTC