Two big communications satellites from U.S and Russia collided in the crash in the space about 780 kilometers from the Earth. Both are destroyed in several piece and form a cloud.
Even Nasa will take weeks to measure impact and magnitude of the crash. Scientist are monitoring the debris left by the two satellites. Most of them will burn when they will enter in earth’s environment.
Russian satellite of about 1000 kg was launched in 1993 and was not in working condition when collision occurred. U.S satellite of about 560 kg was commercial satellite launched in 1997. Scientist have information about collision before the incident. NASA didn’t change their schedule of launching space shuttle with seven astronauts on February 22.
The Russian space agency also assured that the debris will not harm to the international space station in any way. But no one has any idea yet how many pieces were generated or how big they might be.
Mankind is also responsible for the pollution in space. There are 6000 satellites have been put into orbit since 1957. Iridium LLC has a system of 65 active satellites that are used for portable phones. Iridium will replace a new satellite in one month. They have 300 thousand of users and most of them are Department of defense.
When I walked out of my
When I walked out of my workplace on Thursday evening about 6:20pm I looked up into the sky toward the Austin, Texas State Capital Building. I normally do this each evening when I leave. The capital building looks to beautiful against the setting sun or the dark of the night depending on the season. As I looked up I saw a bright light with a tail slowly flying West to East across the sky just past the Goddess of Liberty statue atop the building. It appears as though the fire ball was flowing out of the star of the statue. It was such a wonderful sight I wished that I would have had my camera. The light was moving extremely slow which made me think that it wasn't a shooting star. I was large with a tail of fire so I didn't think that it was a plane or helicopter. i quickly called my son who was in South Austin and I asked him to run outside to see if he could see the light. He was able to see the light too. If this was debris I am surprised that I didn't read more about it in the news, just like the fire ball seen over the North Austin sky on February 16th.
Emerald from Austin, TX
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