"Currently, there’s no national or global authority that would force satellite operators to take action on predicted collisions."
Exciting.
Exciting.
[1] https://www.iridium.com/ [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_satellite_collision
This is exactly how it should work though.
I.e. a transferring satellite gives way to an operational which gives way to a disabled. (Of course it's more involved than this, including predictable avoidance maneuvers, but that's would be the basic gist of it.)
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Regulations_for_...
[1] https://planefinder.net/about/visual-flight-rules-vfr-of-the...