1 On 10 February 2009, at a height of about 800
kilometers above Siberia, an American satellite collided
the first such
height [háit]
satellite [séetalait]
collide(d) [kaláid(id)]
with an old Russian satellite.
It was
collision [kaligan]
collision in the history of space development. As a result,
fragment(s)
[fráegmant(s))
debris [dabri:]
more than 1,000 fragments of debris were scattered into
space.
2 The image above shows the vast amount of space
debris in orbit around Earth. Approximately 22,000
vast [váest]
orbit [5:rbat]
approximately
[aprá:ksamatli)
objects larger than 10 centimeters across are floating
around Earth. Of these, about 16,000 are from known
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considering
[kansidarig)
artificial [a:rtafijal]
currently [ks:rantli]
operation [a:paréifon]
Considering that there are only about 1,000
artificial satellites currently in operation, the amount of
Sources.
space debris is astonishing.
This space debris is not only due to the collision of
satellites.
For example, when rockets reach space, they s
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leave behind surplus engines and fuel tanks. These
objects remain in orbit as space debris. In addition,
surplus s5:rplas]
there are tools that astronauts have dropped while
tool(s) [t:l(z))
astronaut(s)
[astrand:t(s)
aluminum [ala:manom
per|par]
working outside. Even a one-centimeter aluminum ball.
when orbiting at a speed of around 10 kilometers per 0
bullet [bálat]
second, is far more powerful than a bullet from a gun.
gun [gán]
