(CNN) -- A rogue satellite is floating through space, threatening to push into another satellite's orbit and interrupt cable TV programming in the United States.
But the company that owns the satellite says they've known about the problem for more than a month and that the impact on cable TV will be minimal.
Galaxy 15, a satellite that catches cable signals and beams them back to Earth, broke loose from its orbit and began a slow, out-of-control drift at about a tenth of a degree per day, according to its owners, communications company Intelsat.
Yves Feltes, a spokesman for SES World Skies -- which owns the other satellite -- issued a statement saying his company is "doing our utmost in order to mitigate any interference into any of our traffic in close coordination with our customers and our competitor Intelstat."
See NASA's tracking map of satellites orbiting Earth.
At that time, they announced the problem and began moving customers to another satellite, Galaxy 12.
clipped from www.cnn.com
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