There is a possibility that two inactive satellites currently in low Earth orbit will collide on Wednesday above the US, according to space debris tracking service LeoLabs.
If the two satellites crash into each other, the collision will result in thousands of pieces of small space debris which will pose a massive risk to other satellites in space.LeoLabs tweeted Monday that astronomers are monitoring the close approach of two decades-old satellites which will come within 13 to 87 meters of each other at 6:39 p.m. EST. There is a 1 in 1,000 chance that the two will collide.
— LeoLabs, Inc. January 27, 2020 Read More"It isn't as unlikely as it usually is," McDowell said."We start getting worried when it's 1 in 10,000, so 1 in 1,000 is unusual and it might actually be a lot worse than that."The two inactive satellites include NASA's IRAS space telescope which was launched in 1983 and the experimental US Naval Research Lab spy satellite GGSE-4, launched in 1967.
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