Wednesday, February 11, 2009

A Space crash: satellites collide 500 miles above Earth


A US and a Russian satellite have collided in space hundreds of miles above Earth in what is believed to be the first major crash of two spacecraft in orbit.


The collision – which occurred nearly 500 miles over Siberia on Tuesday - caused massive debris clouds to shoot out into the atmosphere and posed a risk to astronauts aboard the international space station.

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