U.S. Department of Defense Monitors Near Miss Between NASA and Russian Satellites
The U.S. Department of Defense has intensified its surveillance efforts following a close encounter between NASA’s Thermosphere Ionosphere Mesosphere Energetics and Dynamics Mission (TIMED) spacecraft and the Russian Cosmos 2221 satellite, as revealed in a recent blog post by NASA. While the likelihood of a collision is low, the potential consequences of such an event, … Read more