Tag: Space Junk

  • Did two more Iridium satellites collide with space debris?

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    An Iridium satellite on display at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. Credit: Image by Eric Long, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution Two mystifying incidents last year involving separate Iridium communications satellites have experts wondering whether the spacecraft collided with tiny fragments of space junk. Both satellites kept…