Satellites collision in space

Rare new!. US and Russian satellites collided in space. One of the crafts was a 1235-lb Iridium commercial communications satellite sent up in 1997, and the other was a 1-ton Russian satellite launched in 1993 that was presumed to be nonfunctioning—and out of control. Maybe, the Russian satellite Windows OS crashed, huh.

The incident was observed by the US Defence Department’s Space Surveillance Network, which later tracked two large clouds of debris or litter. This is the first time we (publicly) have ever had two intact spacecrafts accidentally run into each other in a high-speed space crash. The crash occurred nearly 500 miles over Siberia Tuesday.

UPDATES:
* Feb 26, 2009 - $270 million NASA satellite crashes

Space agencies are tracking the debris of the satellite crash and hope most of it burns in the earth atmosphere. The orbit around earth is already pretty like a junk yard. Litter in orbit has increased in recent years, in part because of the deliberate breakups of old satellites. The items, some as small as four inches (10cm), are tracked by the US Space Surveillance Network - sending information to help spacecraft avoid the debris. Some 6,000 satellites have been sent into orbit since 1957.

If you make a phone call and received this tone, "Your call cannot be completed as dialed", that's means the phone company is using the Iridium satellite which now has became space debris.

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