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The 22 January 2013 collision between debris from Fengyun FY-1C satellite and the Russian BLITS nano-satellite. The 22 May 2013 collision between two CubeSats , Ecuador's NEE-01 Pegaso and Argentina's CubeBug-1 , and the particles of a debris cloud around a Tsyklon-3 upper stage ( SCN 15890) [ 2 ] left over from the launch of Kosmos 1666 .
Spacecraft collision avoidance is the implementation and study of processes minimizing the chance of orbiting spacecraft inadvertently colliding with other orbiting objects. The most common subject of spacecraft collision avoidance research and development is for human-made satellites in geocentric orbits. The subject includes procedures ...
There were 190 known satellite breakups between 1961 and 2006. [2] By 2015, the total had grown to 250 on-orbit fragmentation events. [3] As of 2012 there were an estimated 500,000 pieces of debris in orbit, [4] with 300,000 pieces below 2000 km . [1] Of the total, about 20,000 are tracked. [1]
The U.S. Space Force is tracking debris in space after a satellite manufactured by Boeing exploded earlier this week, the satellite's operator said.. The Intelsat 33e satellite, which was launched ...
This satellite had been deactivated prior to the collision, and remained in orbit as space debris. The other spacecraft, Iridium 33, was a 560-kilogram (1,200 lb) U.S.-built commercial satellite that was part of the Iridium constellation for satellite phones. [2] It was launched on September 14, 1997, atop a Russian Proton rocket.
SpaceX told the FCC in July that its satellites had conducted nearly 50,000 collision-avoidance maneuvers in just the first half of the year, Space.com reported. Unfortunately, not all satellites ...
Of these satellites, 29 simply failed during their time in orbit and were thus unable to self-deorbit, while one – Iridium 33 – was involved in the 2009 satellite collision with the derelict Russian military satellite Kosmos-2251. [189] No contingency plan was laid for the removal of satellites that were unable to remove themselves.
March 24: A piece of debris from a prior satellite collision was discovered too late to perform avoidance maneuvers, requiring space station crew to shelter in their Soyuz spacecrafts as a precaution. The distance at closest approach was around 11 kilometres (6.8 mi), after which the crew continued their regular duties.