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The Space Debris Collision Problem

March 3, 2009

A few weeks ago, a US and Russian satellite collided, spreading debris around near-Earth space. The video below shows an animation based on a state-of-the-art model of the event and the resulting clouds of ultra-high-speed projectiles. Collisions like this can be expected to occur with increasing frequency.
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