A privately owned US communication satellite collided with defunct Russian satellite in orbit posing a risk to the international space station on Thursday. A NASA official said that this is the first such incident happened in space.It is the first such collision in space, NASA spokesman Kelly Humphries said on Wednesday regarding this , adding that the magnitude of the accident was unknown yet.
It seems NASA will take weeks to determine the full magnitude of this crash, which occurred on Tuesday nearly 790 km over northern region of Siberia, at an altitude used by satellites that monitor weather and also carry some telephone communications among the other things.According to an e mail alert issued by NASA on Wednesday, COSMOS 2251 satellite slammed into the Iridium 33 satellite at 11:55 hrs IST .
This incident was observed by the US Defence Department's Space Surveillance Network later, which later tracked two large clouds of debris in the space.
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