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Kessler Cascade
FY-1C ASAT
Avoidance Maneuver
Feb 10, 2009 · 789 km
Iridium 33 ↔ Cosmos 2251
The first accidental hypervelocity collision between two intact satellites. Both were destroyed, generating
~2,300 trackable fragments
— many still orbit today.
11.7
km/s rel. vel.
789
km altitude
560
Iridium mass (kg)
900
Cosmos mass (kg)
0
Fragments
Iridium-Cosmos Collision Simulation
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