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 [...]
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13 Feb
Close Encounters of the Worst Kind: How Safe Are We from Killer Asteroids?
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 [...]
12 Feb
U.S. and Russian satellites collide
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 [...]
