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Operation Burnt Frost was a military operation to intercept and destroy non-functioning U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) satellite USA-193. [1] The mission was described by the Missile Defense Agency as a "mission of safeguarding human life against the uncontrolled re-entry of a 5,000-pound satellite containing over 1,000 pounds of hazardous hydrazine propellant". [2]
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 .
An investigation is under way, but there is no initial indication of sabotage or other interference.
Schematic of the Kosmos-954 on-board reactor. Kosmos 954 (Russian: Космос 954) was a reconnaissance satellite launched by the Soviet Union in 1977. A malfunction prevented safe separation of its onboard nuclear reactor; when the satellite reentered the Earth's atmosphere the following year, it scattered radioactive debris over northern Canada, some of the debris landing in the Great ...
A set of Russian satellites have been demonstrating “unusual and distributing behavior” while following a multibillion-dollar U.S. spy satellite, said Gen. John Raymond.
General Glen VanHerck, Commander of US Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command, arrives for a closed-door briefing for senators about the Chinese spy balloon at the US ...
The satellite entered orbit, but lost contact with the ground within hours. [1] [non-primary source needed] In late January 2008, reports from anonymous U.S. officials indicated a U.S. spy satellite, later confirmed as USA-193, [1] was in a deteriorating orbit and was expected to crash into Earth within weeks.
Russia last week launched a satellite that U.S. intelligence officials believe to be a weapon capable of inspecting and attacking other satellites, the U.S. Space Command said Tuesday as the ...