Remember when those two satellites collided the other day? Seems that they’ll be the space junk.gift that keeps on giving, as their 800-km debris orbiting field could hamper all future space launches.
How could two submarines end up colliding in the middle of the ocean? British military types are blaming excessive stealthiness, and the French claim they didn’t realise what had happened for days.
First Satellites colliding, now this. Two nuclear submarines carrying nuclear missiles, the British HMS Vanguard—in the image—and the French Le Triomphan, bumped in the Atlantic this February.
The AP is reporting that two satellites just crashed about 800km above Siberia in the first-ever in-orbit collision of two spacecrafts.
While Ford has been developing a new collision warning system, they’ve decided that there are cheaper, safer ways to the R&D than smashing endless piles of cars into one another.
