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Conjunction Assessment
CARA service for conjunction assessment screenings and risk analysis.
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FOD
The Flight Operations Directorate (FOD) at NASA’s Johnson Space Center touches every program and part of sending humans to space.
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CARA Sections
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Step 2: Close Approach Risk Assessment
The results from a Conjunction Assessment (CA) screening
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Step 3: Close Approach Risk Mitigation
For close approaches that manifest a high level of collision risk
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