First major satellite collision

[Trooper110]

2 big satellites collide 500 miles over Siberia

Wow, I bet that cost someone a few dollars.

[Zantheus]

"We knew this was going to happen eventually," said Mark Matney, an orbital debris scientist at Johnson Space Center in Houston.

Laf and they would rather them pose a risk to the ISS then try to change the course of at least one of the satellites.....

[Skud]

demo derby

The Russian satellite was out of commission for a while...maybe they're just using them like bowling balls:

"Iridium Holdings LLC has a system of 65 active satellites which relay calls from portable phones that are about twice the size of a regular mobile phone. It has more than 300,000 subscribers. The U.S. Department of Defense is one of its largest customers."

[mapes]

I wondered if they got the license, registration and insurance information from the Russian sattelite?

[ViTO]

At the beginning of this year there were roughly 17,000 pieces of manmade debris orbiting Earth, Johnson said.
The items, at least 4 inches in size, are being tracked by the U.S. Space Surveillance Network, which is operated by the military.
The network detected the two debris clouds created Tuesday.

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now that's some nice job security !!!