14 Feb
NEWS BLOG by Kelly Beatty
Space is mostly empty, but sometimes it isn’t empty enough.
Two days ago a pair of orbiting satellites collided 480 miles (780 km) up over Siberia. One was Cosmos 2251, a defunct communications satellite launched in 1993 by the Russian Ministry of Defense. The other was named Iridium 33, one of several [...]
13 Feb
Features - February 12, 2009
Largest near-Earth objects are already well characterized, but smaller ones could surprise
By John Matson
In 1998, the year Deep Impact and Armageddon dueled for the attentions of apocalypse-from-the-heavens moviegoers, Congress tapped NASA to prevent such a cosmic cataclysm from becoming reality. The space agency was charged with cataloguing over the next decade the vast [...]
12 Feb
February 11, 2009 3:47 PM PST
by Bill Harwood
In a commercial Iridium communications satellite and a defunct Russian satellite ran into each other Tuesday above northern Siberia, creating a cloud of wreckage, officials said today. The international space station does not appear to be threatened by the debris, they said, but it’s not yet clear whether [...]
12 Feb
Wed Feb 11, 6:59 pm ET
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Two big communications satellites collided in the first-ever crash of two intact spacecraft in orbit, shooting out a pair of massive debris clouds and posing a slight risk to the international space station.
NASA said it will take weeks to determine the full magnitude of the crash, which occurred nearly [...]
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