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1969: five sailors on a Japanese ship were injured when space debris from what was believed to be a Soviet spacecraft struck the deck of their boat. [4]1978: the Soviet reconnaissance satellite Kosmos 954 reentered the atmosphere over northwest Canada and scattered radioactive debris over northern Canada, some landing in the Great Slave Lake.
What's the risk of being hit by a piece of falling space debris? According to scientists at the space agency, you're risk of being injured by falling space debris is under 1 in 100 billion.
The fragments can then hit other objects, producing even more space debris: if a large enough collision or explosion were to occur, such as between a space station and a defunct satellite, or as the result of hostile actions in space, then the resulting debris cascade could make prospects for long-term viability of satellites in particular low ...
RELATED STORY | Why Space Junk Is A Compounding Issue For Missions, Astronauts At its most extreme, Kessler syndrome may reach a self-perpetuating threshold that could render entire orbits ...
In 2009, an American satellite and Russian satellite crashed together, ending in nearly 2,000 bits of debris large enough to detect — at least 4 inches wide — with thousands more smaller bits.
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]
Up until December 2022, the International Space Station had moved out of the way of space junk 32 times since 1999, according to a 2022 quarterly report from NASA. By October 2023, that figure had ...
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 .