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Top Stories Tamfitronics A Centaur upper stage being prepared for launch. Credit: NASA/Jim Grossmann WASHINGTON — The Federal Aviation Administration is moving ahead with efforts to develop rules for the disposal of upper stages as another Centaur upper stage breaks apart in orbit.Slingshot Aerospace, which operates a network of telescopes to track objects in orbit, said Sept. 6 that a Centaur upper stage left in a geostationary transfer orbit from the March 2018 Atlas 5 launch of the GOES 18 weather satellite had broken up. The company noted that the stage appeared intact in one image taken at 1:16 a.m. Eastern that day but another taken 16 minutes later showed a debris cloud.🚨 Slingshot Orbital Alert 🚨 (Post 2/2)The Slingshot Global Sensor Network is currently tracking 40+ objects related to the breakup of an ATLAS...