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Two Canadian satellites are in danger of being damaged or destroyed because they’re passing through massive clouds of space junk caused by a recent collision between a Russian and an American satellite.
Read MoreIt's not easy evacuating when you're in outer space, especially when a piece of space debris is traveling at a high rate of speed aimed at you. Such was the situation today . . .
Read MoreThe February 10th collision of the two satellites resulted in the generation of space junk that now circles Earth and threatens spacecraft from a host of nations. A proposal has been made during the 46th session of the Scientific and Technical Subcommittee of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) for a space traffic control system.
Read MoreSatellites provide fast technology and faster communications — except when one agency needs to communicate to another of the potential collision, such as occurred this last week.
Read MoreSatNews found the following article to be of potential interest to our subscribers, courtesy of Trevor Williams University of Victoria Mechanical Engineering PhD candidate:
Read MoreA commercial satellite collided with a Russian satellite over Siberia on February 10th. This yielded a cloud of fragments, according to a NASA scientist tracking space debris.
Read MoreInformation regarding this year's programs and people of Secure World Foundation reveals an action-oriented agenda for 2009. Foremost is ensuring space security . . .
Read MoreWith the phrase, "That's it. It's gone," Talgat Musabeyev, the head of Khrunichev, announced the total disappearance of the KazSat-1 satellite, which entered its orbital slot in June of 2006.
Read MoreYesterday we reported about one of the meetings the European Space Agency (ESA) conducted in The Hague, and another matter that was addressed was that outer space is swarming with a wide array of operational spacecraft, as well as littered with human-made hazardous space debris.
Read MoreFor the past two years, the Association of Space Explorers (ASE) — the international organization of astronauts and cosmonauts from 33 countries — has been developing a program to protect the Earth from asteroid impacts.
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