Satellites Collide in Space — Fallout Uncertain

Satellites Collide in Space — Fallout Uncertain

Posted by Michael Bradbury in SciClips, Space, Video on 02 18th, 2009 | no responses

space-junk.jpg

Courtesy of the Johnson Space Center, NASA Orbital Debris Program Office

Two satellites collided in space last week in the first-ever disaster between to intact space objects.

A defunct Russian satellite that was slowly falling out of orbit smashed into a working U.S. communications satellite, creating two debris clouds and adding to a growing halo of junk around the planet.


Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy

Satellites Collide in Space [ 5:48 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
Share

Leave a Reply

Technology blogs
Technology

Warning: Unknown: open(/var/sessions/sess_c32ac5ed67e15c009d20fa979c2dd63c, O_RDWR) failed: No such file or directory (2) in Unknown on line 0

Warning: Unknown: Failed to write session data (files). Please verify that the current setting of session.save_path is correct (/var/sessions) in Unknown on line 0