Crash of US, Russian satellites a threat in space
February 14, 2009 by hikaru2000
The collision between U.S. and Russian communication satellites this week — the first such crash — has created speeding clouds of debris that threaten other unmanned spacecraft in nearby orbits, Russian officials and experts said.
The smashup 500 miles (800 kilometers) over Siberia on Tuesday involved a derelict Russian spacecraft designed for military communications and a working U.S. Iridium satellite, which serves commercial customers as well as the U.S. Department of Defense.
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