MOSCOW (Reuters) – Space officials in Russia and the United States were on Thursday tracking hundreds of pieces of debris that were spewed into space when a U.S. satellite collided with a defunct Russian military satellite.
The crash, which Russian officials said
took place on Tuesday at about 1700 GMT (12:00 p.m. EST) above northern
Siberia, is the first publicly known satellite collision and has raised
concerns about the safety of the manned
International Space Station.