Soviet satellite to fall to Earth

Soviet satellite to fall to Earth Moscow: Meteor-1, the Soviet Union's first fully operational weather satellite, will Monday night re-enter the Earth's atmosphere after more than four decades in orbit, the web site of the US Strategic Command said. The Meteor satellite series was developed in the Soviet Union during the sixties. On March 26, 1969, a Vostok rocket launched Meteor-1, the very first version of the Soviet Meteor satellite network, into orbit. The satellite terminated...
11:59 AM, Mar 27, 2012

Astronauts rush to safety as space junk whizz by

Astronauts rush to safety as space junk whizz by Washington: Six International Space Station (ISS) astronauts rushed to safety as a piece of a Russian satellite whizzed by. The astronauts orbiting 320 km above the planet were stirred from their slumber Saturday to jump into emergency escape pods. They were told by the ground control to scramble into two docked Soyuz spacecrafts in case a piece of a wrecked Russian satellite should smash into the ISS. The emergency was...
11:13 AM, Mar 25, 2012

US, Russian satellites collide in space

US, Russian satellites collide in space A NASA official says this is the first such incident in space. ...
12:12 PM, Feb 12, 2009
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