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  • Russian spacecraft comes within 10m of destroying U.S. Satellite, NASA ‘shocked’

    04/11/2024 9:54:48 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 41 replies
    Hindustan Times ^ | 11 Apr 2024, 01:54 PM IST | Staff
    A Russian spacecraft, named [Cosmos 2221] came dangerously close to a U.S. satellite, passing within just 10 meters in space. Experts have asserted that the near-miss could have had severe consequences, potentially endangering lives on Earth. NASA's Timed satellite, designed to monitor Earth's atmosphere, narrowly avoided a collision with the defunct Russian spy satellite Cosmos 2221. Colonel Pam Melroy, NASA's deputy administrator and a former astronaut, described the incident as "really scary" for the U.S. space agency. Speaking at the Space Foundation’s Space Symposium in Colorado, Melroy said, “It was very shocking personally and for all of us at Nasa,"...