美俄衛星發生史上首次太空相撞

The US Military and Iridium Satellite LLC both confirmed that, according to US East Coast time, at 11:55 a.m. on 10th, a commercial Iridium communications satellite collided with a defunct Russian military communication satellite over northern Siberia. It is the first-ever crash for two big communications satellites in the history of human space.

Of these two satellites, one is the US commercial satellite launched in 1997, the other is the Russian satellite put into orbit in 1993, the latter one has already abandoned.The spokesman of the NASA said, the crash has left a large number of debris drifting in space ,which might pose a slight risk to the International Space Station.

美國軍方和美國LLC銥星公司12日均確認，美國東部時間10日上午11時55分，美國銥衛星LLC公司的一顆商用通信衛星與一顆已經報廢的俄羅斯軍用通信衛星10日在西伯利亞北部上空相撞，這是人類太空史上首次發生兩顆大型衛星相撞事件。

兩顆衛星中，一顆是美國1997年發射的商用衛星，另一顆是俄羅斯1993年發射的衛星，後一顆衛星已經報廢。美宇航局發言人說，兩顆衛星相撞產生的大量碎片散落到太空中，這對國際空間站可能會產生輕微影響。