A Russian and American spacecraft narrowly crashed in space

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The incident happened back in February, and a NASA employee has now spoken about how much they feared at the American space agency that the two space probes would collide.

In February, the papers wrote that it took 20 meters for NASA TIMED and the now-retired Russian Cosmos 2221 to collide with each other. And as it has since turned out, the satellites were actually less than 10 meters apart.

„This was very shocking to me personally and to all of us at NASA. If the two satellites had collided, the tiny fragments would have been hurtling through space at 10,000 miles per hour, risking puncturing another spacecraft or harming a human.” – He told Pam Melroy of NASA.

The incident happened shortly after the news sites reported it were reported, Russia is working on developing space-based nuclear weapons that could threaten the satellite systems of other countries. Russian President Vladimir Putin has denied the existence of the weapons, and a Kremlin official said “as a malicious invention” called the news, according to Melroy, NASA was concerned that nuclear weapons might be involved in the asteroid incident.

Experts have long warned about the ever-growing number of satellites, as the risk of the devices they collide. The American astrophysicist Donald Kessler already spoke in 1978 that the more satellites we put into orbit, the more serious the risk we expose people to, because the fragments of debris created by collisions not only endanger communication, but can also endanger human life if they fall back to Earth.