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Possible Collision Between Cube-satellite and Old Space Junk

Posted by Soulskill on from the shades-of-kessler dept.

photonic writes "The BBC is reporting on a possible collision between Ecuador's first satellite (a small cubesat) and debris from an upper stage of an old Russian rocket. If confirmed, this might be the third case in recent years, after a high-speed collision of an Iridium satellite with a dead Russian satellite in 2009 and a collision earlier this year between a Russian laser reflector (which can be tracked very accurately) and a tiny piece of a debris from a Chinese weather satellite that was destroyed in a missile test."

3 of 74 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Kessler Syndrome by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Well geeze, we all already knew that Anonymous Coward was a bit of a dick. Seriously, why post this?

  2. Re:Kessler Syndrome by Captain+Hook · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Well for one thing, it shows a bit of concensus for the idea.

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  3. Re:Kessler Syndrome by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    I was thinking the same thing but didn't know the proper name for it.

    Thanks for letting us know. Now that we're aware of what Bob the Super Hamste was thinking, the world is a better place.

    Seriously, why post this?

    And now I'm going to ask the same question to you there, thy arrogant one of pointless posts.

    At least I recognize the irony of my response here, and have now stated it. Do yourself a favor and try not to get hung up on policing pointless posts. You will lose. I promise. No matter what site you go to.