the first time a hypervelocity collision occurred between two satellites; previous incidents had involved a satellite and a piece of space debris. Kosmos...

Strictly speaking, a satellite collision is when two satellites collide while in orbit around a third, much larger body, such as a planet or moon. This...

States anti-satellite missile test 2007 Chinese anti-satellite missile test 2009 satellite collision – First hypervelocity spacecraft collision Space Liability...

operating satellites are now defunct or no longer exist. Wikinews has news coverage of the 2009 satellite collision: Russian and US satellites collide Burning...

The most common subject of spacecraft collision avoidance research and development is for human-made satellites in geocentric orbits. The subject includes...

debris events, the 2007 Chinese antisatellite weapon test and the 2009 satellite collision, occurred at 800 to 900 kilometres (500 to 560 mi) altitude. The...

mission ended prematurely, very shortly after an anomalous slow-velocity collision with its target spacecraft, having completed less than half of the original...

Wikinews has news coverage of the 2009 satellite collision: Russian and US satellites collide Burning debris from satellites spotted over several US cities...

satellite, in the first major collision of two satellites in Earth orbit. The Iridium satellite, which was operational at the time of the collision,...

detection of much smaller satellites and debris. The 2009 satellite collision of the Iridium 33 and Kosmos 2251 communications satellites, which added hundreds...

collisions. The collision tore off a 2.8-2.9 metre (9.2-9.5 foot) portion of Cerise's gravity-gradient stabilization boom, which left the satellite severely...

the threshold for artillery cannons is 3,500 ft/s (1066.8 m/s). 2009 satellite collision Hypersonic aircraft Hypersonic flight Hypersonic Hypervelocity...

number of satellites and space debris around Earth increases, the threat of collision has become more severe. A small number of satellites orbit other...

fragments of space debris, a figure potentially exceeding that of the 2009 satellite collision between Iridium 33 and Kosmos 2251. This close miss was particularly...

debris include the explosion of upper stages and satellite collisions. There were 190 known satellite breakups between 1961 and 2006. By 2015, the total...

Russian satellite launched on September 17, 2009, as a secondary payload on a Soyuz-2.1b/Fregat, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The satellite is...

thermosphere to expand and rise, increasing the drag on spacecraft. The 2009 satellite collision between the Iridium 33 and Cosmos 2251 demonstrated the importance...

Colombia. 10 February – 2009 satellite collision: The first accidental hypervelocity collision between two intact satellites in low Earth orbit takes...

interaction is a satellite galaxy disturbing the primary galaxy's spiral arms. An example of a major interaction is a galactic collision, which may lead...

contact during flight Satellite collision, a collision between two objects in orbit around another body Ship collision, a collision between two ships or...

software" had been implemented.) In 2009, the site had been included in a computer model of the February 2009 satellite collision, and GCC Enterprises was contracted...

Lisse, Carey M.; et al. (2009). "Abundant Circumstellar Silica Dust and SiO Gas Created by a Giant Hypervelocity Collision in the ~12 Myr HD172555 System"...

Weeden (10 November 2010). "2009 Iridium-Cosmos Collision Factsheet" (PDF). Secure World Foundation. "Satellite Catalog Number index (updated Jan 2008)". Jonathan...

Operations Center announced that two non-maneuverable satellites would come dangerously close, with a collision probability as high as 44%. DMSP F15 and Meteor...

: 24  Discovering these many irregular satellites will help reveal their population's size distribution and collisional histories, which will place further...

33 was one of the satellites destroyed in the 2009 satellite collision. Most of the Iridium satellites currently in orbit have already exceeded their...

fragmented by collisions. Most of the major natural satellites of the Solar System have regular orbits, while most of the small natural satellites have irregular...

to keep its position, and modern retired satellites are placed in a higher graveyard orbit to avoid collisions. In 1929, Herman Potočnik described both...

one-half the present-day moons may be themselves collisional shards formed when a parental satellite of the rings disintegrated. Janus and Epimetheus...

The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course is a 2002 adventure comedy film based on the nature documentary television series The Crocodile Hunter. It stars...