A dead Russian spacecraft nearly collided with a NASA satellite. The impact would have sent 7,500 bits of debris rocketing around the Earth.
Simulated image of a satellite collision and the resulting debris.ESA / ID&Sense / ONiRiXEL, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO NASA’s TIMED satellite narrowly avoided a collision with Russia’s dead Cosmos 2221 spacecraft this week. In a worst-case scenario, the impact would launch 7,500 bits of debris into low Earth orbit. As the amount of space debris… Read More »