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Tess Hatch, Chris Wu, Wouter Julien Luc Van Gijseghem, Maurizio Valesani and Tim Spencer
Tue, December 15, 2020, 3:55 PM EST·15 min read
Over the icy tundra of Siberia in 2009, a derelict Russian military satellite, Kosmos-2251, slammed into an active communications satellite, Iridium 33, at speeds in excess of 26,000 miles per hour. Both were immediately smashed to smithereens.
As a result of this single collision, approximately 1,800 large pieces of space debris, each capable of destroying any spacecraft unfortunate enough to cross its path, remain in orbit to this day and for the foreseeable future.
Tess Hatch, Chris Wu, Wouter Julien Luc Van Gijseghem, Maurizio Valesani and Tim Spencer
Tue, December 15, 2020, 3:55 PM EST·15 min read
Over the icy tundra of Siberia in 2009, a derelict Russian military satellite, Kosmos-2251, slammed into an active communications satellite, Iridium 33, at speeds in excess of 26,000 miles per hour. Both were immediately smashed to smithereens.
As a result of this single collision, approximately 1,800 large pieces of space debris, each capable of destroying any spacecraft unfortunate enough to cross its path, remain in orbit to this day and for the foreseeable future.