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Debris From Satellites' Collision Said to Pose Small Risk to Space Station


Debris From Satellites' Collision Said to Pose Small Risk to Space Station -- Joel Achenbach  -- Washington Post  -- February 12, 2009
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The Pentagon and NASA are scrambling to assess the risk to spacecraft and the international space station from hundreds of pieces of debris created in the collision Tuesday of two satellites 491 miles above Siberia. NASA's initial estimate is that the space station faces a "very small" but "elevated" risk of being struck.

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