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Nasa’s TIMED satellite narrowly avoids collision with defunct Russian satellite

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Nasa’s TIMED satellite narrowly avoids collision with defunct Russian satellite

NEW DELHI: An active Nasa spacecraft narrowly avoided a collision with an inactive Russian satellite in low Earth orbit.The close encounter between Nasa’s Thermosphere Ionosphere Mesosphere Energetics and Dynamics (TIMED) mission spacecraft and the Russian Cosmos 2221 satellite was predicted to occur at around 1:30am EST on February 28, at an altitude of about 373 … Read more