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One called the collision "a catastrophic event" that he hoped would force the new U.S. administration to address the issue of debris in space. Russian Mission Control chief Vladimir Solovyov said ...

There are currently around 25,000 objects of space debris ... pieces of non-trackable debris that could pose a risk to spacecraft and satellites. “The probability of collision between massive ...

The ISS performs collision avoidance maneuvers as needed. For example, it dodged a piece of Russian space junk in late 2022. But defunct items like the rocket body and satellite can't get out of ...

Satellite collision highlights the danger of space junk to precious gear. Feb. 13, 2009— -- The already hobbled Hubble Space Telescope could be further harmed by space debris from Wednesday's ...

Space is vast, but orbit isn’t, and estimates placed the satellites at no more than 60 feet apart, roughly the length of two full-size school buses, as they passed. In the event of a collision, the ...

Orbital debris is (nearly) forever, and threatens to render near-Earth space (under 1250 miles, or 2000 km altitude) unusable, and all but impassible. The 2007 Chinese anti-satellite test and the ...

About 25,000 are pieces of obsolete satellites, rocket parts and debris — space junk orbiting out of ... making it hard to avoid collision.

as well as its Space Debris Office, which monitors and models the debris environment to reduce collision and re-entry. Its Space Environment Report however also points out that "current levels of ...

Using this model proposed by the UMA, it is estimated that space debris would rise by 25,500,000 fragments larger than 1 centimeter, thus increasing the probability of collision and the number of ...