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TwitterJunk created by the collision of two satellites last month is poised to fall into Earth’s atmosphere this week.When the U.S. Iridium 33 communications satellite and the defunct Russian military communications satellite Cosmos 2251 collided and were destroyed, the smashup left a fresh sea of fragments orbiting at various angles.
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Destroyed Satellite’s Debris Falling into Atmosphere
March 11th, 2009 
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February 19th, 2009 admin Hubble Space TelescopeFrom Wired Science:The spectacular collision between two satellites on Feb. 10 could make the shuttle mission to fix the Hubble Space Telescope too risky to attempt.Before the collision, space junk problems had already upped the Hubble mission’s risk of a “catastrophic impact” beyond NASA’s usual limits, Nature’s Geoff Brumfiel reported today, and now the problem will be worse.Read more ….
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February 16th, 2009 admin Image: This image provided by the European Space Agency shows and artist impression of catalogued objects in low-Earth orbit viewed over the Equator. Scientists are keeping a close eye on orbital debris created when two communications satellites _ one American, the other Russian _ smashed into each other hundreds of miles above Siberia Feb.
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February 11th, 2009 admin Image from Scientific American2 Big Satellites Collide 500 Miles Over Siberia — Yahoo News/APCAPE 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 500 miles over Siberia on Tuesday.”We knew this was going to happen eventually,” said Mark Matney, an orbital debris scientist at Johnson Space Center in Houston.NASA believes any risk to the space station and its three astronauts should be low.
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